From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What does `undecided' do for encoding text? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234303590 19254 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 22:06:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:06:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 23:07:45 2009 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 1LX0lc-0002GD-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:07:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LX0kI-0006Xi-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:06:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LX0iR-0004HV-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LX0iP-0004Ek-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39847 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LX0iP-0004ET-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:25 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47826) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LX0iM-0000CM-2P; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:22 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor.home (x-132-204-252-185.xtpr.umontreal.ca [132.204.252.185]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with SMTP id n1AM4v2w020913; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F214DA22E0; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:10 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3208=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:108968 Archived-At: >> It looks like `undecided' works the same as `raw-text' for encoding >> text. Is that true in general? > Yes. More exactly, it is the same as `raw-text-unix'. Which I prefer calling `binary'. >> I think this should be reflected in the ELisp manual. > I don't think so because it is just a fallback behavior, and > Elisp programmer should avoid specifying `undecided' on > encoding. Then why do we even allow it? We should signal an error. Stefan