From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, handa@m17n.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:11:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KKZdO-00032A-10@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ww3slju.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org)
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> lekktu@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> rms@gnu.org,
> handa@m17n.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:34:13 +0900
>
> > no-conversion doesn't mean that the text will _look_ the same, it
> > means the byte stream will be the same.
>
> That's true as a definition, and incorrect as a matter of fact in
> multibyte buffers. Unless Emacs enforces "no-conversion is unibyte",
It does, as a matter of fact.
> In any case, only Emacs maintainers should ever need to care about
> the representational transformations performed by coding systems
I most strongly disagree, but maybe I don't understand what you mean
by ``representational transformations''.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 0:43 ^M in the info files Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-11 4:42 ` dhruva
2008-06-11 15:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 1:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 2:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 2:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 4:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 9:15 ` Jason Rumney
2008-07-09 11:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 17:58 ` James Cloos
2008-07-09 20:19 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-14 11:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-21 11:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-10 11:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-10 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 18:42 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-19 22:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-21 4:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-21 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-21 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 10:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 14:54 ` "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files) Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 23:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 23:57 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-10 0:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-10 1:12 ` "no-conversion" coding system Stefan Monnier
2008-07-14 23:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-15 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-20 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-15 6:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-20 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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