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change of coding system without inquiry

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:55:00 +0100

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

There was no response to this, so I'm guessing there wasn't much
enthusiasm for adding prompting like this, so I'm re-closing this bug
report.

And as you say:

> 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.

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