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What does the coding system nil mean?
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
What does the coding system nil mean? |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:13:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
(coding-system-p nil) => t
OK, so nil is a coding system.
But I can't find any documentation about what it means to supply nil
to functions that take a coding system (`encode-coding-string' etc.),
and `describe-coding-system' refuses to describe the nil coding
system.
Hmm, `encode-coding-string' promises to set `last-coding-system-used'
... yet if you supply nil, it doesn't change the previous value of the
variable.
So, can anyone explain what a nil coding system means?
- What does the coding system nil mean?,
Jesper Harder <=
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/25
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- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Jesper Harder, 2004/01/25
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/26
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- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/01/26
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/26
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Oliver Scholz, 2004/01/27
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/01/27
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- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Jesper Harder, 2004/01/26
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/26
- Re: What does the coding system nil mean?, Oliver Scholz, 2004/01/27