From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: decode-coding-string and consing
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:32:40 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1030211083119.25449E-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3el6f2464.fsf@defun.localdomain>
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
> >> Under what conditions is the decoding operation "trivial"?
> >
> > If CODING-SYSTEM is nil or such that no encoding is necessary at all.
>
> But I don't understand why any encoding is needed at all in:
>
> (decode-coding-string "abc" 'us-ascii t)
Why did you use us-ascii at all here? It's not really a coding system.
Why not nil or raw-text?
Anyway, is there some real problem behind this discussion?
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2003-02-10 16:47 decode-coding-string and consing Jesper Harder
2003-02-10 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2003-02-10 21:53 ` Jesper Harder
2003-02-11 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2003-02-11 17:26 ` Jesper Harder
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