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Re: "no-conversion" coding system
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: "no-conversion" coding system |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:41 -0400 |
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>> I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
>> a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
>> conversion going on.
>> `no-conversion' used to really mean no conversion.
>> Why has that changed?
Technically, that may be true. But take a utf-8 text and open it with
"no-conversion" and it won't look like the same text, so for some
interpretation of "conversion", it has been converted.
I.e. it's a name that leads to confusion. Its other name "binary" is
a lot more unequivocal.
Stefan
- Re: ^M in the info files, (continued)
- Re: ^M in the info files, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/10
- Re: ^M in the info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/19
- Re: ^M in the info files, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/21
- Re: ^M in the info files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/21
- Re: ^M in the info files, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/21
- Re: ^M in the info files, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/07/09
- "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Kenichi Handa, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Kenichi Handa, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/14
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/14
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/20
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/15
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/20