From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: What does the coding system nil mean?
Date: 25 Jan 2004 08:10:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uad4ch825.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m365f1571p.fsf@defun.localdomain> (message from Jesper Harder on Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:13:38 +0100)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:13:38 +0100
>
> So, can anyone explain what a nil coding system means?
It means, quite naturally, that no code-conversion should take place.
That is, the original text or string are left unaltered.
Try it:
M-: (encode-coding-string "SOME STRING" nil)
=> "SOME STRING"
(include non-ASCII characters in the string to convince yourself they
are not encoded).
I agree that this should be in the docs somewhere, e.g. in the docs of
the en/decoding primitives such as encode-coding-region and
decode-coding-string. So a documentation bug report is probably in
order.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-25 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-24 22:13 What does the coding system nil mean? Jesper Harder
2004-01-25 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2004-01-25 21:09 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1343.1075097239.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-27 15:22 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-01-27 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 15:20 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-27 14:44 ` Oliver Scholz
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