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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #63 received at 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:41:48 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de,  4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:49:33 +0200
> 
> > 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?

I'm still not convinced we need this.  But if people think otherwise,
we could have an opt-in feature to ask such questions.
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