Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 25, 4:21 pm, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >     - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more useful
> > manner ?
>
> No.  Auto-save files are encoded using Emacs's internal coding-system,
> which makes the operation a lot more reliable and efficient (no need to
> worry about the case where some char(s) can't be encoded, for example).


i thought emacs 23/24 uses a superset of utf-8 as internal encoding?
so that i thought those #autosave# files are encoded in utf-8, and as
long as one open them with utf-8 decoding all chars would show. Is
this not correct?

(i turned of auto-save and auto backup few years ago)

 Xah