From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does `undecided' do for encoding text?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:04:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwsbykkzu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LWmcI-0005fr-JU@etlken> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:10 +0900")
>> It looks like `undecided' works the same as `raw-text' for encoding
>> text. Is that true in general?
> Yes. More exactly, it is the same as `raw-text-unix'.
Which I prefer calling `binary'.
>> I think this should be reflected in the ELisp manual.
> I don't think so because it is just a fallback behavior, and
> Elisp programmer should avoid specifying `undecided' on
> encoding.
Then why do we even allow it? We should signal an error.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-07 15:32 What does `undecided' do for encoding text? Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 7:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-10 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-10 11:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-10 11:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-11 9:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-10 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-02-16 11:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-02-16 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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