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Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:58:29 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:07:07 -0400
>
> > that's interesting. What's some examples? e.g. What chars in emacs's
> > encoding that's different from utf-8 encoding? I've been wondering why
> > it needs to be a superset.
>
> The most obvious unavoidable ones are the chars that represent bytes.
Yes, and then there are CJK characters that are not unified with their
Unicode codepoints, for historical and cultural reasons. There's more
detailed description in the ELisp manual, node "Text Representations".