Re: "no-conversion" coding system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:35 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> >> Its other name "binary" is a lot more unequivocal.
> > Only if you are a programmer who knows that binary files are usually
> > read with no conversions.  Otherwise, the name "binary" doesn't have
> 
> Since the `no-conversion' method depends on the underlying byte-encoding
> used in a file, it is inherently something for programmers,
> bit-twiddlers, ...

I didn't mean Lisp programmers, I meant C/C++ programmers.  Many
people program in Lisp without knowing anything about low-level OS
stuff.