Made UTF-8 the default emacs system encoding

9 years ago · 396c1fea41
1 changed files with 5 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/home/.emacs.d/init.el
+++ b/home/.emacs.d/init.el
@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 (setq user-full-name "Drew Short")
 (setq user-email-address "warrick@sothr.com")

+;; Set UTF-8 as the default encoding
+(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
+(setq coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
+(setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
+
 ;; Load common lisp
 (require 'cl)