From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: problem with system_eol_type Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:00:52 +0100 Message-ID: <44CE3744.6080403@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154365403 10144 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 17:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mule-ja@m17n.org, Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 19:03:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7b92-0000rs-Rs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:01:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7b92-0006Pj-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7b8p-0006PV-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7b8n-0006Ok-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7b8n-0006Oa-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:01:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G7bBV-0004q6-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.111.61] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA8FB32; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:52:38 +0100 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.61 ([192.168.111.61] helo=[192.168.111.61]) by ASSP-nospam; 31 Jul 2006 17:52:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: 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:57851 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there any good reason why Gnus uses coding systems of the form `foo' > rather than `foo-unix'? > > This said, there's clearly a problem of backward compatibility since the > "buggy" code worked in Emacs-21. > Gnus is released with Emacs, so this needn't be a concern if it is fixed in the Gnus source before release. The question is, do any other packages rely on the default eol-type for encoding being Unix? For most uses, it shouldn't matter, it is only when encoding to a string rather than a file that there is a problem if I understand the Gnus case correctly.