Subject: Re: bug#13505: Bug#696026: emacs24: file corruption on saving

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:49:15 +0200

> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:22:11 +0100
> From: Vincent Lefevre <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
> 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> On 2013-01-20 23:10:08 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > But Emacs should clearly tell the user what to do after C-x C-s and
> > clearly say when there can be data loss. Currently it says:
> [...]
> 
> In fact, I fear that this may not be sufficient, because some data
> loss silently occurs when visiting the file.

Exactly!

> If after the decoding, it appears that there are no problematic
> characters (is this possible?), the user would be able to save the
> file without any message from Emacs.

I don't know how to do that within the framework of Emacs handling of
non-ASCII text.