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Re: "no-conversion" coding system

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: "no-conversion" coding system
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:35 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) 
>> Its other name "binary" is a lot more unequivocal.
> Only if you are a programmer who knows that binary files are usually
> read with no conversions.  Otherwise, the name "binary" doesn't have

Since the `no-conversion' method depends on the underlying byte-encoding
used in a file, it is inherently something for programmers,
bit-twiddlers, ...


        Stefan
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