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Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8
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Will Parsons |
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Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8 |
Date: |
14 Apr 2017 23:37:16 GMT |
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B. T. Raven wrote:
> Hi Will. I decided to respond because of this observation in the latest
> posting:
> "They used to say emacs and vi are religions; these days they are
> starting to seem like latin."
Not completely - "Emacs" should be spelt "Emax" first ;)
(And the plural, I suppose should be "emaces" rather than "emacsen".)
> On 4/7/2017 18:43, Will Parsons wrote:
>> I want to always use Unicode/UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. I've noticed
>> that I've attempted to do this in my .emacs file in two separate ways on two
>> separate platforms:
>>
>> 1) (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
>>
>> 2) (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
>>
>> Both seem to work, but I'm wondering if there are subtle differences between
>> the two that I should be aware of.
>
> I can't help with any subtlties but can only recommend that you add this
> cookie to the beginning of the buffer:
>
> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Yes, I've employed that too. (Incidentally, I've been programming a lot in
Ruby for some years now, and I was surprised to find that after inserting a
copyright symbol (©) into one of my Ruby source files, that Emacs ruby-mode
inserted a line containing '# coding: utf-8' at the top when the file was
saved.)
> I think it may be enough to save and reload the file into a new buffer
> before adding exotic characters.
> I also have these lines in my .emacs:
>
> (set-locale-environment "utf-8")
> (set-language-environment 'utf-8)
> (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> ;; (set-buffer-process-coding-system 'utf-8 'utf-8)
> (modify-coding-system-alist 'process
> "[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" 'utf-8-dos)
>
> The line commented out caused a problem but I don't remember what it
> was. My os w64 vers. 7
Wow. I should think that should cover all possibilities. I prefer to be a
bit more minimalist than that though...
Anyway, thanks - Vale Edwarde!
--
Will