Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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> In the GNU Project, we do not "obey" standards.  Rather, we take them
> into account when judging what is best for the program to do.
>
> Emacs could conceivably report an error after decoding a file as UTF-8
> which turns out to have invalid text.  That way, the user will have
> the chance to decide whether to accept the decoding or not.

One problem with that is that quite often Emacs' choice of a coding
system for a buffer is the result of heuristics rather than dependable
information.  Not making a fuzz might often be simplest.

-- 
David Kastrup