From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:10:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83k347aot7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <"<54193A70.9020901"@member.fsf.org> <"<837g0ptnlj.fsf"@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <"<834mvttgsf.fsf"@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <"<871tqneyvl.fsf"@netris.org> <"<83lhotme1e.fsf"@gnu.org> <"<838uktm9gw.fsf"@gnu.org> <87h9zgarvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <"<83y4srjaot.fsf"@gnu.org> <"<83r3yhiu8c.fsf"@gnu.org> <884ecd46-d85f-4663-8756-aaf12aa649d2@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412957949 16771 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2014 16:19:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stephen@xemacs.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 10 18:19:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Xccu8-00011C-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 18:18:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49552 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccu6-0006Rv-QZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:18:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36705) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xccm0-0000XF-V2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcclw-0001uG-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:43907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xcclq-0001sF-F6; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND800D00KKJ7E00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:10:21 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND800DZHKX86920@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:10:21 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <884ecd46-d85f-4663-8756-aaf12aa649d2@default> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175228 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 09:02:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: dak@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stephen@xemacs.org > > > 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.