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RE: Emacs Lisp's future


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Emacs Lisp's future
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:02:09 -0700 (PDT)

>   Visit a file (or receive from another process text) that is
>   encoded in Latin-1. Insert some text that cannot be encoded in
>   Latin-1, and try saving the buffer (or sending it to a process).
> 
> Originally, Emacs would complain that Latin-1 cannot be used, and
> asked the user to select a different encoding.  Then users of UTF-8
> locales complained that these prompts were annoyances, that they
> expect Emacs to use UTF-8 silently, without any questions, as long
> as UTF-8 can encode the result.  So now that is what we do.

Is that preference (bother me versus silently change the encoding)
under individual-user control?

If not, why not create a user option for it?  The default behavior
can be the current behavior.



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