From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:59:39 +0300 Message-ID: <8336ky1v6s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190525191039.14136.23307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525191040.CCD6C207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83zhn726mr.fsf@gnu.org> <83ftoz1f0l.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="254149"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 28 16:59:51 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVdZs-0013wo-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 16:59:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVdZr-0005VU-AX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 10:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55436) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVdZe-0005UJ-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 10:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVdZe-0007pn-KJ; Tue, 28 May 2019 10:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2653 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hVdZc-0002wf-Av; Tue, 28 May 2019 10:59:33 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 28 May 2019 09:06:37 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237103 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:06:37 +0200 > > Itʼs clear enough to me now. The only thing that trips me up is this > kind of phrase (from (info "(elisp)Coding System Basics") > > When you use ‘raw-text’ to encode multibyte text, it does perform > one character code conversion: it converts eight-bit characters to > their single-byte external representation. > > because I always forget that eight-bit characters have a multi-byte > representation in the emacs-internal coding system. So why does that trip you? It reminds you what you tend to forget, so it's a good documentation, right?