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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Message #35 received at 7962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>, 7962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic
	signs in emacs 23.2.1
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:39:01 +0100

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.


But does that require that you mark those files as coded in ISO-8859-1 etc?
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