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change of coding system without inquiry

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Message #55 received at 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:35:19 +1100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Ok; reopening.

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