UTF as Filename Extension

[Giorgos Keramidas]

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 :)