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Re: coding-system perfectionism locks user out
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: coding-system perfectionism locks user out |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:56:08 +0200 |
On 14 Feb 2002, Luis Fernandes wrote:
> >>>>> "eliz" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
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> eliz> Actually, it's the other way around: Emacs cowardly decides
> ^^^^^^^^
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> Ouch..."conservatively", perhaps?
That was supposed to be a joke...
Cf. the message printed by GNU Tar when it is invoked incorrectly:
"Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive"
The ``cowardly'' part is there because in most cases, creating an archive
would result in a disaster, overwriting user files etc.
Similar disasters could happen if Emacs would try code conversions in
dubious cases.