Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <rzqd70uhswa.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
>  > The mapping between locale names and encodings should really
>  > be left to where it belongs, namely the C library.
> 
> If it changes there, Emacs users could be messed up.  Apart from the
> effect on using existing data, they may be surprised when creating new
> files and they'd probably find themselves using the wrong input
> method.
> 

If Emacs does something different than the rest of the system, Emacs
users could be severely and very painfully SHAFTED.  Unfortunately I
have found that since MULE was integrated in Emacs 20, Emacs cannot be
guaranteed to be safe to use in a monolingual environment, especially
when you're having to deal with files with mixed binary and text data.
This, in my opinion, is a just hugely enormous braindamage introduced
into my favourite editor.

	-hpa
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