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Re: No coding system in the modeline for unibyte buffers.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: No coding system in the modeline for unibyte buffers.
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:35 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> So as to indicate if the buffer is unibyte or multibyte?

> Hmm. I suppose that is useful (though, if the coding system is on the
> modeline, its toltip will tell you that). Knowing the encoding is
> useful, too, if you deal with unibyte data from various encodings.
> Perhaps both things could be shown.

Maybe the problem is that you don't realize that a unibyte buffer is
different from a multibyte buffer using raw-text (or binary) encoding?


        Stefan




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