Re: [Warning and iso 8859-1 default?]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:16:37 +0300
> 
>    > Why are you puzzled?  Nothing in your locale says to prefer 8859-8.
> 
> Yes but it does not say anything abiout 8859-1 either 

Latin-1 is a reasonable general-purpose default, whereas ISO-8859-8
isn't.

>    > What does coding-system-priority-list return?
> 
> (utf-8 iso-2022-7bit iso-latin-1 iso-2022-7bit-lock iso-2022-8bit-ss2 
> emacs-mule raw-text iso-2022-jp in-is13194-devanagari chinese-iso-8bit 
> utf-8-auto utf-8-with-signature ...)
> 
> So iso-latin-1 is the third entry, which explains the behaviour. 

Yes.

> 3 questions then
> 
>     1. Where is this configured so that I can change it?

set-coding-system-priority (but you really should learn to read the
manual, so you could answer these questions yourself).

>     2. What is emacs-mule
> 
>     3. What is utf-8-with-signature

"C-h C-\" will describe them (as it will any other coding-system).