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Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1


From: Xavier Maillard
Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200
User-agent: Rmail on GNU Emacs/26.1 (26.1)

Hey Eli,

> > (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
> 
> Setting the language environment to UTF-8 is precisely something
> that's NOT recommended to Windows users, because MS-Windows doesn't
> support UTF-8 at all as a codeset.  Emacs on Windows does, but the
> UTF-8 language environment will, among other things, cause Emacs to
> pass command-line arguments to programs encoded in UTF-8, something
> that will not work.

What about other platforms ? Is it considered harmless to set it ?

Thank you.
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