Hi Bruno,

On 2023-02-17, Bruno Barbier wrote:

> Hi Jens,
>
> Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de> writes:
>
>> ...
>> Note that I insert contents literally because I do not want
>> ‘find-file-hook’, automatic uncompression, etc. (which are avoided
>> according to the doc string of insert-file-contents-literally).
>>
>> Could the old behavior be restored?
>
> By using `insert-file-contents-literally' (as opposed to
> `insert-file-contents'), you're also forbidding Emacs to decode the
> binary content of your file into text.
>
> My guess is that it was working by chance in previous versions.

in any case, this will introduce failures elsewhere.

> In case somebody might help you, here is a simple way to trigger the
> encoding question with a recent version of org (mine is Org mode version 9.6.1).
>
>    (with-temp-buffer
>       (insert "Lechtenb\303\266rger")
>       (org-mode))

Thank you for the simpler recipe.  This indeed fails now.

So, maybe my question is: Must text be decoded for Org mode from now on?

Best wishes
Jens