Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
> Cc: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
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> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:15:05 -0400
> 
> > UTF-8 is defined as not containing "overlong" sequences, so Emacs
> > decodes them into two raw-byte indicating characters, one indicating
> > 0xC0, one indicating 0xA2.  When encoding, it reassembles them into
> > 0xC0 0xA2.
> 
> When editing a file, this is probably the right default behavior,
> although ideally it should warn the user.

It does, when the user modifies the file and then saves it.