Bug 77130

Summary:	cannot set utf-8 as preferred encoding
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	diego.santacruz
Component:	xemacs	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description diego.santacruz 2002-11-01 16:00:00 UTC

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Description of problem:
Tried setting the preferred encoding in xemacs to utf-8, but I get the error
"Can't prefer the 'utf-8' coding system". Since now UTF-8 is the default
encoding in Red Hat 8.0, it should be possible to set UTF-8 in xemacs as the
preferred coding.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xemacs-21.4.8-16

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the preferred coding to UTF-8 with 'Esc-x prefer-coding-system' anb then
'utf-8'
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  xemacs refuses to set the coding to UTF-8 with the message
"Can't prefer the 'utf-8' coding system"

Expected Results:  Be able to set UTF-8 as the preferred coding so that new
files are written in UTF-8.

Additional info:

Currently one has to manually set the coding to UTF-8 before opening each file,
which is a pain.
Not using UTF-8 creates all types of problems when attempting to read the file
with more or less (since they will assume UTF-8).

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2002-11-11 06:28:50 UTC

Yes, I have also noticed this.

http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-nt/200206/msg00038.html

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2003-04-17 12:58:59 UTC

Utf-8 coding configuration should be improved in xemacs-21.4.12-8
in rawhide shortly.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2003-05-19 08:42:17 UTC

Closing for now.