Re: Encoding for a file containing filenames?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:49:11 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> 
> > I'd recommend utf-8 (good for the future) or emacs-mule (good for the
> > present).
> 
> The unicode branch can read emacs-mule files. And the ido history is
> not read by other programs, so external compatibility is not an issue.

It is still better to use UTF-8 because that makes the file readable
by other programs.