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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte b

From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:31 -0400 
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  > > Having trawled through the elisp manual, for the life of me itʼs not
  > > clear which coding system I should use. 'raw-text'? 'us-ascii'?
  > > Something Else?

  > You should use utf-8-emacs-unix.

Have we got clear documentation of how raw-text and utf-8-emacs-unix differ
and when to use each one?

Does the Emacs Lisp manual refer to that documention from the places
it would be useful to do so?

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