From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190525191039.14136.23307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525191040.CCD6C207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83zhn726mr.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="64375"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 22:19:57 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 1hVM69-000GXH-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:19:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVM61-0008Qm-ES for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 16:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53565) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVM3r-0007LM-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVM3q-0007gO-VO; Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hVM3n-0001Ok-Hi; Mon, 27 May 2019 16:17:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83zhn726mr.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 27 May 2019 19:40:12 +0300) 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:237059 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)