Re: those funny non-ASCII characters

[rusi]

On Jun 1, 9:23 am, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 May 2012 01:15:11 UTC+8, Buchs, Kevin  wrote:
> > Xah suggested I embrace Unicode. So I could use (prefer-coding-system
> > 'utf-8) or the file variable: -*- coding: utf-8 -*-. Are there drawbacks
> > to the former? What about opening an ASCII coded file? Can emacs
> > properly detect it or does it come up as UTF-8?
>
> ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so the problem you are imagining does not exist.

This does not exactly work that way on windows.
eg recently saw a description of how notepad put a BOM mark in a
haskell-script which made the haskell scripts unrunnable