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bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry |
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Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:55:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > FWIW, in the past users explicitly expressed annoyance by these
>> > questions. The request was to use the "native" encoding silently. By
>> > introducing back this question, we are restoring that annoyance.
>>
>> Perhaps it's time to make a decision now -- to not add a change like this?
>
> I'm still not convinced we need this. But if people think otherwise,
> we could have an opt-in feature to ask such questions.
There was no response to this, so I'm guessing there wasn't much
enthusiasm for adding prompting like this, so I'm re-closing this bug
report.
And as you say:
> This is a rare use case. It's possible that just saying
>
> (prefer-coding-system 'latin-1)
>
> is all that's needed to get the required prompt back.
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