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Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)
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    I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
    a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
    conversion going on.

`no-conversion' used to really mean no conversion.
Why has that changed?