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From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: UUIDGEN in lisp
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:21:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptcd9zcs.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2586.1077048551.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> What is the difference between `raw-text-unix' and `binary'?  In which
>> cases should you use one or the other?
>
> I suggest to use raw-text-unix when doing I/O of random bytes that you
> don't want to be mangled.  no-conversion (binary is just its alias)
> once meant that the internal Mule representation was read and written
> to produce multibyte characters, so I suggest to avoid that to prevent
> confusion.

So you're saying that `raw-text-unix' and `binary' are completely
equivalent today, right?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2374.1076727586.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-14  4:05 ` UUIDGEN in lisp Jesper Harder
2004-02-14 18:23   ` Brad Collins
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2398.1076783242.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-15  0:27     ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-15  4:16       ` Brad Collins
2004-02-15 16:05         ` Brad Collins
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2412.1076818749.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-15 20:47         ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 10:04           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-16 13:47           ` Brad Collins
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2461.1076925909.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 16:30             ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-16 19:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <mailman.2509.1076960950.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 21:05                 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17  6:46                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.2546.1077000306.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-17 18:45                     ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-17 20:08                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.2586.1077048551.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-17 21:21                         ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-02-18  6:34                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-19 16:57                         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2471.1076940207.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-02-16 17:10             ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-14 18:54 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-02-15  2:37   ` Felix
2004-02-14  2:57 Brad Collins

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