Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > 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 ?

On Posix platforms, sure.  (But make sure your filesystem has file
names encoded in UTF-8, or else all file names will appear as
mojibake.)