Re: Emacs file coding problem

Gabor Farkas <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:

>afaik gedit's encoding defaults to the system's locale (should be utf8
>on FedoraC3).

Bad, bad. It should default to the user's locale; not the system's.
Perhaps that what you meant.

Also bad is the total absence of mention of locale in gedit's man page,
and no mention of coding apart from saying there is an "--encoding"
command-line option, but not saying what charsets are supported.

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