GNU bug report logs - #4816
change of coding system without inquiry

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:10:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:46:47 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:37:13 +1100
> Cc: 4816 <at> 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.
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