On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:05:04PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 22/10/2016 à 16:58, Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > > I still wonder why we should keep this preference. > > > > Good observation. I think for backward compatibility. Otherwise we > > don't know what was the old default. Suppose that a user unchecked > > that preference, meaning that no fontenc is loaded. If we miss this > > info, we should convert an old [Default] to T1 (the old default), > > thus screwing up old documents. The same if instead that was changed > > to OT1, for example. > > I think that at some point we should remove it and describe what to do in > Release Notes for existing documents. What I do not know is whether a few > people will face much work to get their documents in good shape again.
If you ask me, I think that 99.99% of users didn't change that default. If someone was needing a different encoding, it is much more likely that he stumbled upon the custom setting in the document settings dialog rather than that setting in the preferences. -- Enrico
