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Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:31:39 +0900
User-agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)

In article <address@hidden>, Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
>     a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
>     conversion going on.

> `no-conversion' used to really mean no conversion.
> Why has that changed?

Nothing is changed.  When you insert a file in a multibyte
buffer with no-conversion, each eight-bit code is converted
to a special 2-byte form to represent eight-bit character.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden




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