Re: utf-16

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have a file with marker "# -*- utf-16 -*- in line 1.

[ This is a problematic case in itself: to read the "-*- utf-16 -*-" Emacs
  needs to know what byte-sequence represents, say, the character "u".
  But at that time (when decoding the file), it can't know yet that it
  will end up saying say "u" is encoded using utf-16.  ]

> Is there any variable which influences the interpretation of
> "utf-16" ?

General rule: don't use "-*- coding: utf-16 -*-".
Better use C-x RET f utf-16-le-with-signature RET before writing the file.


        Stefan