Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> 
> >   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?

No, not AFAIK.