From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:19:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KIXJz-0000Fk-QU@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvabgqo86e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:41 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:41 -0400
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Technically, that may be true. But take a utf-8 text and open it with
> "no-conversion" and it won't look like the same text, so for some
> interpretation of "conversion", it has been converted.
no-conversion doesn't mean that the text will _look_ the same, it
means the byte stream will be the same.
> Its other name "binary" is a lot more unequivocal.
Only if you are a programmer who knows that binary files are usually
read with no conversions. Otherwise, the name "binary" doesn't have
any useful mnemonic meaning in the context of transforming one text
encoding into another.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 23:19 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
2008-07-10 1:12 ` "no-conversion" coding system Stefan Monnier
2008-07-14 23:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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