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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:57:48 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>     Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files

FWIW, I've removed the "coding: utf-8" thingy on a bunch of files in the
last year.

Why not?  Since Emacs-24.4 the coding-system Emacs uses for .el files is
`prefer-utf-8', i.e. it is explicitly defined to be "utf-8 if it is
valid" and the user's locale/settings is only used as a fallback.


        Stefan



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