GNU bug report logs - #7962
23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:42:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>
Cc: 7962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:19:13 +0200

> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:49:22 +0100
> From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>
> Cc: 
> 
> However I am reluctant to switch to UTF-8 for all my texts in English,
> German, French, even Icelandic etc... i.e. Western European languages,
> the only ones I'll ever typeset, which are perfectly handled in
> unibyte iso-8859-1.

You seem to assume that going multibyte requires that your files be
encoded in UTF-8.  That simply isn't true.  The files can continue be
encoded in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15; Emacs will decode them into its
internal representation when you visit the file and encode it back
when you save it.  You lose nothing.
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