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25.1.50; electric-quote-mode

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Message #26 received at 24759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 24759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24759: 25.1.50; electric-quote-mode
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 10:16:35 +0200

>> So I actually question the need for any test in electric--insertable-p.
>> What bad things, besides the prompt at save-buffer time, will happen
>> if we remove the test, and insert the characters unconditionally?
>
> And if electric-quote-mode wants to be more user-friendly, it could
> ask, upon the first insertion of any electric quote character into a
> buffer, whether the user would like to her buffer-file-coding-system
> switched to UTF-8.

I'd like such a feature, but I'd rather make it general (not specific
to electric-quote-mode).  That is, whenever a buffer gets a character
(whether typed, yanked, electrically inserted, ...) which is not
representable in the current buffer-file-coding-system, Emacs could
offer the user to switch the coding system to UTF-8 (or another one
which can represent all the characters currently present in the
buffer), like happens when the buffer is about to be saved to a file.

-- 
Dani Moncayo

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