[DOC] decoding/encoding in lispref/nonascii.texi

[Oliver Scholz]

I just noticed a minor mistake in lispref/nonascii.texi. Minor, but it
might confuse people who try to understand the meaning of the various
encoding/decoding functions:


Index: lispref/nonascii.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lispref/nonascii.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -u -r1.54 nonascii.texi
--- lispref/nonascii.texi       6 Feb 2006 11:55:10 -0000       1.54
+++ lispref/nonascii.texi       14 May 2006 21:32:03 -0000
@@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@
 @code{no-conversion}.
 
   Here are the functions to perform explicit encoding or decoding.  The
-decoding functions produce sequences of bytes; the encoding functions
+encoding functions produce sequences of bytes; the decoding functions
 are meant to operate on sequences of bytes.  All of these functions
 discard text properties.


The standard in Emacs w.r.t. the use of the words "decoding" and
"encoding" is as follows:

decoding: stream (file or process output) ==> internal representation

encoding: internal representation ==> stream

Or in other words:

decoding: sequence of bytes ==> sequence of characters

encoding: sequence of characters ==> sequence of bytes


The documentation for the functions below the cited pararagraph
(`encode-coding-region' and others) conform to this.


    Oliver
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