Emacs Init: Set Default File Encoding
Put this in your Emacs Init File:
;; UTF-8 as default encoding (set-language-environment 'utf-8) (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) ;; add this especially on Windows, else python output problem (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
Alt+x list-coding-systems
to see possible valid values.