Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?]

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > Here the user visited the file with Latin-2, then changed the file's
> > encoding on disk into UTF-8, then reverted the buffer.  Should Emacs
> > autodetect in this case or not?
> 
> I don't think it matters since both options can make sense depending
> on the context.

Yes, that was my point.  We've been around these issues more than once, 
and the conclusion always was that the current default is no worse than 
the other possibilities.  So we decided not to change the current 
behavior.

> Prompting the user is another option.

Perhaps as an option, and only in interactive invocation of 
revert-buffer; otherwise I'm afraid some VC-related commands will become 
a nuisance.