Dear fellow developers, <br>
<br>
I am using Xemacs 21.5.17 beta &quot;chayote&quot; on Windows XP, and the SINGLE
MAJOR PROBLEM for me is the lame support for UTF-8 encoding. I live in
Latvia and I use UTF-8 latvian diacritical characters all the time.
However, Xemacs only recognizes file encoding as UTF-8 if there are
first 2 UTF-8 bytes set at the beginning of file, or if there are
already latvian UTF-8 encoded characters in the file. Otherwise, when I
create a new file, or add a diacritical letter to existing UTF-8 file,
there is no way for me to switch Xemacs encoding mode to UTF-8. The
only thing that I learned to work around this is &quot;save the file as
UTF-8&quot; in Notepad, which inserts UTF-8 prefix characters at the
beginning of the file, after which Xemacs recognizes the file as UTF-8.<br>
<br>
Would anyone, please, make a simple Xemacs function to switch the file
encoding to UTF-8, or, even better, to make UTF-8 default encoding for
all files?<br>
<br>
Regards, Eduard<br>