From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Encoding again Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:15:09 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <2oZcd.58831$Vf.2788737@news000.worldonline.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098191870 4507 80.91.229.6 (19 Oct 2004 13:17:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:17:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 19 15:17:45 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJts1-0002gA-00 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:17:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJtzM-0002iq-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:25:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KMJIruCXFaeeS3jkhngn9A4SCao= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1098191709 132.204.24.84 (Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:15:09 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:15:09 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125952 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21325 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21325 > As far as I can see, there is no or little difference between the > coding systems: > emacs-mule > raw-text > no-conversion > binary binary == no-conversion == raw-text-unix. raw-text is almost the same except it does end-of-line conversion. emacs-mule is completely different: reading a file with one of the other 3 encoding will only generate chars between 0 and 255, whereas with emacs-mule you can get literally any char (it's an encoding loosely comparable to iso-2022 or to utf-8). emacs-mule should generally be avoided (it's the internal encoding used inside Emacs buffers and can change between Emacs versions). Stefan