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 05:36:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftoz1f0l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190525191039.14136.23307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525191040.CCD6C207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83zhn726mr.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="118402"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 28 04:36:55 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 1hVRyu-000UWV-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 04:36:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRys-0003TN-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRyl-0003TE-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:36:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRyl-0002zh-Eu; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4782 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hVRye-0002Vj-Cl; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:36:36 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:31 -0400) 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:237065 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:31 -0400 > > > > Having trawled through the elisp manual, for the life of me itʼs not > > > clear which coding system I should use. 'raw-text'? 'us-ascii'? > > > Something Else? > > > You should use utf-8-emacs-unix. > > Have we got clear documentation of how raw-text and utf-8-emacs-unix differ > and when to use each one? > > Does the Emacs Lisp manual refer to that documention from the places > it would be useful to do so? We have these two documented. I'm not the right person to say whether it's clear enough, people should free to complain about unclear aspects and missing references.