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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
| Date: | Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:55:07 -0700 |
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
The file or application is truly local, provided with the OS or
created by the user. In that case on a well-maintained system,
the encoding should be valid
It could easily be mixed. For example, in the Emacs source code the output of the shell command "grep -r she *" produces some text that is UTF-8 and some that is 8-bit EUC. So the shell command's output is not valid even though all its input files are valid. This type of thing is not uncommon.
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