Re: UTF-8 text files

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

 Ralf> Didn't add a thank you note to the last ChangeLog entry yet --
 Ralf> are the Libtool developers alright with UTF-8 encoded ChangeLog*,
 Ralf> THANKS, (maybe eventually AUTHORS) files?

Automake has utf-8 ChangeLog and THANKS file since a few months.
Gettext started a few years ago (IIRC it even uses unicode
characters in C comments).

I think it is safe to use utf-8 today as long as it is not in
(portion of) files that get installed in user packages.

 Ralf> Any emacs-foo I'd need to add at the top or bottom?

;; Variables:
;; coding: utf-8
;; End:

at the end, or 

-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

at the beginning.  Or nothing and rely on autodetection.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz