Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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    UTF-8 is defined as not containing "overlong" sequences, so Emacs
    decodes them into two raw-byte indicating characters, one indicating
    0xC0, one indicating 0xA2.  When encoding, it reassembles them into
    0xC0 0xA2.

In that case, it might be reasonable to ask the user whether to accept
a UTF-8 file decoding that contains any raw-byte characters.

What do people think of this?

    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.

Could you explain what "fuzz" means here?

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