>>>>> "Rupert" == Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
Rupert> Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:
>> o Should guess-external-format default to utf8? I think we should
>> default to whatever the system thinks when the encoding isn't
>> listed.
Rupert> What do you mean by the system here? The operating system? In which
Rupert> case, how can we tell? (This is a genuine question!)
Being illiterate, I can't really say. On my Ubuntu machine, if I
can't seem to start easily a new terminal in anything other than
utf-8. On my Mac, I can create a new terminal with latin1, but then
LANG is set to en_US.ISO8859-1.
Rupert> The "punt to utf-8" logic was basically because I expect a higher and
Rupert> higher percentage of systems to be set to UTF-8 as time goes on. Thus,
Rupert> I think this has the highest probability of being right if we just
Rupert> choose a constant encoding when $LANGUAGE and friends aren't set. But if
This is probably good enough and, like you, I expect utf-8 to be more
and more common.
Ray