From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvabgqo86e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KGk4R-0000Nu-Bq@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:31:39 +0900")
>> I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
>> a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
>> conversion going on.
>> `no-conversion' used to really mean no conversion.
>> Why has that changed?
Technically, that may be true. But take a utf-8 text and open it with
"no-conversion" and it won't look like the same text, so for some
interpretation of "conversion", it has been converted.
I.e. it's a name that leads to confusion. Its other name "binary" is
a lot more unequivocal.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 1:12 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 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-07-14 23:19 ` "no-conversion" coding system 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
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