From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:31:39 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KGk4R-0000Nu-Bq@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KGjXh-0000U4-Jl@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard M Stallman on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:57:49 -0400)
In article <E1KGjXh-0000U4-Jl@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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?
Nothing is changed. When you insert a file in a multibyte
buffer with no-conversion, each eight-bit code is converted
to a special 2-byte form to represent eight-bit character.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 0:43 ^M in the info files Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-11 4:42 ` dhruva
2008-06-11 15:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 1:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 2:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 2:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 4:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 9:15 ` Jason Rumney
2008-07-09 11:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 17:58 ` James Cloos
2008-07-09 20:19 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-14 11:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-21 11:18 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-10 11:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-10 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 18:42 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-19 22:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-21 4:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-21 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-21 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 10:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-07-09 14:54 ` "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files) Stefan Monnier
2008-07-09 23:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 23:57 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-10 0:31 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2008-07-10 1:12 ` "no-conversion" coding system Stefan Monnier
2008-07-14 23:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-15 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-20 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-15 6:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-07-20 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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