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Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8 |
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Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:54:32 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
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> On Windows, the system itself does not support UTF-8 fully, so the former is
> safer. For clipboard and file names on Windows, the latest versions of Emacs
> will use Unicode regardless of what you specify for the coding system, it is
> really only process I/O that is the problem - Cygwin and Mingw apps may
> support UTF-8 I/O, but native Windows apps (including the cmd.exe shell) can
> have severe difficulties with it.
MinGW apps are native apps, so they don't support UTF-8. I think you
meant MSYS, not MinGW (and then only MSYS2 apps support UTF-8).