From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:14:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87prmwh79t.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <87y71o4xw6.fsf@xemacs.org> <48D33A10.4040102@pajato.com> <871vzfi93y.fsf@xemacs.org> <03b276ff-e070-465e-9486-c02e4725a3e0@broken.deisui.org> <87skrvgc8f.fsf@xemacs.org> <496cc373-d7ad-4b06-9f88-1ab2d2ef3e80@broken.deisui.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222074544 10362 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2008 09:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Michael Reilly , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daiki Ueno Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 11:10:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KhhQf-00081e-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:10:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40493 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhhPd-00056Y-2o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:08:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhhPV-00056T-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KhhPS-000564-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35592 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KhhPR-00055z-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:52910) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KhhPQ-0001JC-VH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:08:45 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08271535AE; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:08:37 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 49C791A2E3D; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:14:22 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <496cc373-d7ad-4b06-9f88-1ab2d2ef3e80@broken.deisui.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:104027 Archived-At: Daiki Ueno writes: > The term "multibyte binary" looks like an oxymoron for me ;-) It's not, though. "Multibyte" (more precisely, "variable width") refers to the representation of integers in the buffer. "Binary" refers to the fact that the sequence of characters in the buffer (interpreted as abstract non-negative integers) is exactly the same as the sequence of bytes (again, considered as abstract non-negative integers) in the source.