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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.
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/10
- RE: Emacs Lisp's future,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/13