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Re: decode-coding-string and consing
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: decode-coding-string and consing |
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Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:01:26 +0200 |
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:47:53 +0100
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> ,----[ C-h f decode-coding-string RET ]
> | decode-coding-string is a built-in function.
> | (decode-coding-string STRING CODING-SYSTEM &optional NOCOPY)
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> | Decode STRING which is encoded in CODING-SYSTEM, and return the result.
> | Optional arg NOCOPY non-nil means it is OK to return STRING itself
> | if the decoding operation is trivial.
> `----
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> Under what conditions is the decoding operation "trivial"?
If CODING-SYSTEM is nil or such that no encoding is necessary at all.