[macemacsjp-english 634] Re: Opening UTF-8 text files

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Peter Dyballa Peter_Dybal****@web*****
Thu Aug 17 02:22:06 JST 2006


Am 16.08.2006 um 16:57 schrieb Seiji Zenitani:

>> Among your suggestions (which are also
>> great tips for me), I like this best:
>> (prefer-coding-system   'utf-8m)
>
> If possible, use
> (prefer-coding-system   'utf-8)
> instead. Since utf-8m is a fake coding system based on utf-8, I don't
> recommend utf-8m in such usual situations.

Wasn't utf-8m created for Carbon Emacs Package (and probably also  
useful in Aquamacs Emacs) to overcome limitations in the GNU Emacs  
22.0.50 code? To serve the UTF-8 file name encoding in HFS+?

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   Pete

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