Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 07 2023, Po Lu wrote:

> Why?  Again, the purpose of the indicator is to indicate the characters
> that can be represented in the buffer's coding system.

No.  The purpose is to indicate the buffer's file coding system.  You
can put non-latin-1 characters in a buffer with a latin-1 file coding
system just fine.  The file coding system is only relevant when the
buffer contents is saved.

The buffer contents, if multibyte, is always represented by
utf-8-emacs-unix, but that is an internal detail.

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