bug#81606: Mojibake with UTF-8 file names

Colin Baxter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> writes:

    >>>> And I still don't think we have a consensus regarding the fix
    >>>> for latexenc.el: do we want to decode using UTF-8 or
    >>>> 'undecided'?
    >>> 
    >>> My preference is in this message:
    >>> 
    >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2026-08/msg00877.html
    >>> 
    >>> The second paragraph should read:
    >>> 
    >>> My vote is to go for the utf-8 variant since LaTeX is pushing
    >>> users in that direction anyways and newer engines like LuaTeX
    >>> require it.
    >> 
    >> Yes, I know.  But I'd like to hear at least one more opinion,
    >> perhaps Werner could chime in?

    > I also favour UTF-8 encoding as the default.  BTW, thanks to both
    > on your for working on this!

What happens if a user sets latexenc-dont-use-TeX-master-flag to true
and has no inputencoding statement or inputenc package set? If "undecided"
is changed to "utf-8" then presumably that option is set by default. The
user would need to know this. Why not leave latexenc.el as it is?

Colin.
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