From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de, 4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4712: File encoding
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:33:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eip63v0w.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1My4Sh-0001hr-OH@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:04:19 -0400")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:
>
> value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
> locale-coding-system: utf-8
>
> indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
> there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
> switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.
How can silently producing a broken file be desirable?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 9:12 bug#4712: File encoding Elmar Zander
2009-10-14 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-14 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-14 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-15 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-17 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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