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

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:49:33 +0200

(Bug report about Latin-1 files becoming UTF-8.)

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> +      (unless (or (local-variable-p 'buffer-file-coding-system)
> +                  (eq coding-system buffer-file-coding-system)
> +                  ;; We'd rather only bother the user if the coding-system
> +                  ;; change would cause the file's content to change, so we'd
> +                  ;; want to check whether the new coding-system is a superset
> +                  ;; of the previous one.
> +                  (memq buffer-file-coding-system '(nil undecided us-ascii))
> +                  (y-or-n-p (format "Change encoding from %s to %s? "
> +                                    buffer-file-coding-system coding-system)))
> +        (setq coding-system nil))

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

> FWIW, in the past users explicitly expressed annoyance by these
> questions.  The request was to use the "native" encoding silently.  By
> introducing back this question, we are restoring that annoyance.

Perhaps it's time to make a decision now -- to not add a change like this?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.