Re: ASCII-only startup message?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Random832 <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 02:05:55 -0500
> 
> To take a step back and think about solving both problems... What
> about a list of characters - to include, by default, quotation marks
> and apostrophes and maybe a few other things like dashes - that are
> allowed to be silently mapped to best-fit ASCII equivalents when
> writing a buffer in a coding system that does not support them?

That could only be an optional feature, off by default.  Emacs
should never change the text behind user's back, except when
explicitly asked to do so.