From 86ee95f9300e67babf62df50eea7e73c22e026f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: larstvei <larstvei@ifi.uio.no>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:35:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Set (and move) preferred coding system to utf-8

Setting the default-input-method to "TeX" has been for nothing for a very long
time. The `set-language-environment` overwrites the default-input-method.
---
 init.org | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init.org b/init.org
index f00a4b0..430a5aa 100644
--- a/init.org
+++ b/init.org
@@ -201,6 +201,15 @@
 
   These are what /I/ consider to be saner defaults.
 
+  Set =utf-8= as preferred coding system.
+
+  #+begin_src emacs-lisp
+
+  (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
+  (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
+
+  #+end_src
+
   We can set variables to whatever value we'd like using =setq=.
 
   #+begin_src emacs-lisp
@@ -284,14 +293,6 @@
 
   #+end_src
 
-  Set =utf-8= as preferred coding system.
-
-  #+begin_src emacs-lisp
-
-  (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
-
-  #+end_src
-
   By default the =narrow-to-region= command is disabled and issues a
   warning, because it might confuse new users. I find it useful sometimes,
   and don't want to be warned.