Re: non-ASCII characters in Automake source files

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 23 May 2003 23:13:28 -0700
> 
> I'd rather not decorate each non-ASCII source file with a comment
> about coding systems if I can avoid doing that.  I was hoping that
> Emacs could detect whether such files are UTF-8 or Latin-1 (the two
> main candidates in Automake), and would prefer UTF-8 when in doubt.

I think Emacs in its current CVS codebase does that.