From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 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).
Yes, I have also noticed this. http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-nt/200206/msg00038.html
Utf-8 coding configuration should be improved in xemacs-21.4.12-8 in rawhide shortly.
Closing for now.