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Re: Emacs and UTf8 locale

Hi,

At Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:02:03 +0100 (MET),
Oliver Doepner wrote:

> > Also, what exactly does Emacs do to use it?
> 
> It sets the language environment to "utf-8", and sets the default and 
> preferred coding systems to utf-8.  It also sets the default input 
> method.

Sorry for replying old discussion.  I think UTF-8 mode should not
mean the default input method.

UTF-8 mode should only mean that the default input encoding is UTF-8
(Since Emacs has encoding guessing and fallback mechanism, Emacs can
fall into other encodings if the encoding of input file cannot be UTF-8.
The fallback encodings can be locale-dependent.) and the default output
encoding is UTF-8.  Input method depends on language, not encoding.

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