tlug: Re: GB, Big5

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

>Advice:  stay away from EUC-encoded (EUC-JP, GB, KR) text where
>possible, and avoid Big5 and Shit-JIS like the plague.  Use ISO-2022
>7-bit encodings and/or Unicode as much as possible.

Thank you for all the advice, including the above. 
I have included this line

(set-default-file-coding-system *junet*)

in .emacs, fwiw. 

(set-default-file-coding-system *ctext*)

would work as well...


my environment still doesn't want to grep Japanese 
of any encoding, apparently. Either of the following 
two lines in .emacs is supposed to remedy that, but 
so far I haven't been successful. 

(define-program-coding-system "*grep*" nil (cons *euc-japan* *euc-japan*))
(set-default-process-coding-system *euc-japan* *euc-japan*)

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