Re: Unicode and text editors

[Heime]

On Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 4:32 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:15:31 +0000
> > From: "W. Greenhouse" via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org writes:
> > 
> > > Is this becoming the norm? What about emacs?
> > > 
> > > Does emacs encourage use of unicode characters (UTF-8) in code comments
> > > and documentation?
> > 
> > UTF-8 represents Emacs' internal text encoding
> 
> 
> No, the internal encoding is different (it's a superset of UTF-8).
> 
> > and also its default preference for new files.
> 
> 
> That is only true if the user's locale has UTF-8 as its codeset.
> 
> > When visiting existing files it attempts to
> > detect the encoding, and maintain it while editing.
> 
> That is correct.

Does this mean that we should not worry when we use UTF-8?   Would
UTF-* be supported, and detected.  With the appropriate symbols showing
as they should.