bug#4712: File encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 
> 4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
>         ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:33:19 +0200
> 
> 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?

It isn't, and we don't.  You misunderstood what I was saying.