Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mike Gerwitz <address@hidden>,
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> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:50:37 +0900
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> In the case of Emacs coding systems, it's as simple as choosing to
> name the conformant coding system 'utf-8, and the non-conformant one
> 'utf-8-with-rawbytes.

We already tried something akin to that, and the users almost
unanimously wanted Emacs to opt-in by default.

> Why does this excite such <adjective deleted> opposition?

Because we've been-there-done-that, and have enough gray hair to prove
that what you are asking will be met with staunch user opposition.