Re: Unicode and text editors

[Heime]

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On Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 6:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:54:43 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > When visiting existing files it attempts to
> > > > detect the encoding, and maintain it while editing.
> > > 
> > > That is correct.
> > 
> > Does this mean that we should not worry when we use UTF-8? Would
> > UTF-* be supported, and detected. With the appropriate symbols showing
> > as they should.
> 
> 
> I was talking about Emacs. Your original question was about other
> editors. I'm not familiar with other modern editors enough to tell
> whether you should or should not worry. In particular, I don't know
> how they recognize UTF-8, and am not sure that Emacs coding cookies
> are supported by them.

Is it reasonable to expect that UTF-* characters are recognised and supported?
What is your school of thought regarding emacs?