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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Coding systems documentation
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:33:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoczwlx0q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1L6pOm-0005NQ-IU@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:43:56 -0500
> 
>     +@c I think this paragraph is no longer correct.
>     +@ignore
>        Most coding systems specify a particular character code for
>      conversion, but some of them leave the choice unspecified---to be chosen
>      heuristically for each file, based on the data.
>     +@end ignore
> 
> I think these still exist.  For example, there are `undecided' and friends.

Is this only about undecided? or are there other examples?

If it's only about undecided, I'd like to rewrite this text to speak
explicitly about undecided.  Then it won't sound so mysteriously.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-30 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-30 16:43 Coding systems documentation Richard M Stallman
2008-11-30 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-01  1:30   ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-01  4:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-01  5:22       ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-01 14:06   ` Richard M Stallman

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