Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Sorry, when :coding 'raw-text-unix didn't work as expected I first try
>> 
>> :coding (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt))
>>              'raw-text-dos
>>          'raw-text-unix)
>> 
>> then I realized it was equivalent to :
>> :coding 'raw-text
>
> Actually, no: it isn't equivalent.  Just raw-text tells Emacs to use
> the default on encoding (thus -dos on Windows and -unix on GNU/Linux),
> and to _detect_ the EOL format on decoding.  But I don't think this is
> a problem in this case, is it?
>

No, it isn't a problem, and on the contrary it's exactly what I want :
detect the EOL format for decoding.