Re: [vile] vile-9.6k.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Actually... there is one thing I'd like to discuss.
> If file-encoding is set to auto, it will inspect the buffer to decide
> what to do which seems to default to '8bit' to my systems (inspecting
> $encoding) when editting an empty/new file.
> It would IMO be more sane to set the default based on the locale.
> I have set LC_CTYPE to an UTF-8 locale exactly for that purpose.
> If this is done, this still works for editting latin1/latin9 files
> or ASCII files.
>
> What do you think?

offhand yes (will check).  I seem to recall just implementing the default
to '8bit' to make it more consistent with previous behavior.  But I'll
look/see if that's all that's involved.

thanks

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