bug#4712: File encoding

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:
>
>   value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>
> indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
> there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
> switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.

How can silently producing a broken file be desirable?

Andreas.

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