Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:39:21 +0200
> 
> I'm still surprised that something like this isn't possible with utf-8.

UTF-8 cannot encode language-specific differences of a given
character, that is something that is against the basic principle of
Unicode: that each character has one and only one encoding.

This is one reason why Emacs uses a superset of Unicode in its
internal representation, btw.