From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:46:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83ziukalco.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4AE77C59.5060106@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <8737sds5ly.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456674508 15117 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 15:48:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:48:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eisinger@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 4816@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 16:48:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zv-0000Ud-RO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:48:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zs-0003hO-7P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zm-0003gs-QV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zi-0008Hw-QT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53759) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zi-0008Hs-NK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Zi-0006Bo-FC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:48:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 4816 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 4816-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B4816.145667443423727 (code B ref 4816); Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4816) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Feb 2016 15:47:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50886 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Yw-0006Ac-Cn for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:47:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49832) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Yu-0006AQ-W9 for 4816@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:47:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Yl-0007rZ-OR for 4816@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37605) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Yl-0007rL-Kp; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:47:03 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3216 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3Yk-0004ki-VT; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:47:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <8737sds5ly.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:37:13 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:114040 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:37:13 +1100 > Cc: 4816@debbugs.gnu.org > > I think this has probably been fixed in the intervening years Actually, I very much doubt that. We still silently use the preferred encoding if the original one doesn't fit. This is a rare use case. It's possible that just saying (prefer-coding-system 'latin-1) is all that's needed to get the required prompt back. I think we should also welcome a patch to provide a user option that will always force the prompt.