UTF as Filename Extension

[Larry Baird]

In article <10911.2654.10281 at localhost> you wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:43:01 -0800, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw at highperformance.net> wrote:
> > Here is a simple discussion that is probably more complex than I'd like
> > it to be.   Is there any way to enforce a UTF-8 encoding of a file,
> > perhaps by filename extension?  Could such an encoding solve cross
> > platform line break incompatibility?
> 
> I find that Emacs makes a very good job of 'hiding' these annoying
> details from me.  In both X11 and `no window' sessions of the editor,
> the coding-system auto-detection of new buffers works 99% of the time
> and I can specify it manually when it doesn't.
> 
> Using the filename for automated guesses of what the content may be is
> probably not going to work so well.  Windows has tried doing it, and see
> all the ATTACHMENT.JPG.EXE trojans they got as a result :)
I have had luck using vim and setting the following in my environment.
	LANG=en_US.UTF-8
	LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

I have also put utf-8 bomb characters at the beginning of my text files.
Take a look at:
	http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode


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