Question regarding session files

[Franklin, Jason]

Why are session files written out with latin1 instead of utf-8?

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Jason Franklin

[Bram Moolenaar]

Jason Franklin wrote:

> Why are session files written out with latin1 instead of utf-8?

Because it always works, even when you are switching between utf-8 and
some other encoding before exiting.
Also for backwards compatibility. If you used to have 'encoding' set to
"latin1" and decide to switch to "utf-8" then there won't be conversion
errors, only some text might not show correctly.

Besides, I've not heard a user complain about how it currently works.
Making a change would be asking for trouble.


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