[Emacs-diffs] emacs/doc/lispref nonascii.texi

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    09/01/17 10:09:16

Modified files:
        doc/lispref    : nonascii.texi 

Log message:
        (Coding System Basics): More accurate description of `raw-text'.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.18&r2=1.19

Patches:
Index: nonascii.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.18
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -b -r1.18 -r1.19
--- nonascii.texi       10 Jan 2009 12:29:56 -0000      1.18
+++ nonascii.texi       17 Jan 2009 10:09:16 -0000      1.19
@@ -863,13 +863,23 @@
 well.  Most base coding systems have three corresponding variants whose
 names are formed by adding @samp{-unix}, @samp{-dos} and @samp{-mac}.
 
address@hidden address@hidden coding system}
   The coding system @code{raw-text} is special in that it prevents
-character code conversion, and causes the buffer visited with that
-coding system to be a unibyte buffer.  It does not specify the
-end-of-line conversion, allowing that to be determined as usual by the
-data, and has the usual three variants which specify the end-of-line
-conversion.  @code{no-conversion} is equivalent to @code{raw-text-unix}:
-it specifies no conversion of either character codes or end-of-line.
+character code conversion, and causes the buffer visited with this
+coding system to be a unibyte buffer.  For historical reasons, you can
+save both unibyte and multibyte text with this coding system.  When
+you use @code{raw-text} to encode multibyte text, it does perform one
+character code conversion: it converts eight-bit characters to their
+single-byte external representation.  @code{raw-text} does not specify
+the end-of-line conversion, allowing that to be determined as usual by
+the data, and has the usual three variants which specify the
+end-of-line conversion.
+
address@hidden address@hidden coding system}
address@hidden address@hidden coding system}
+  @code{no-conversion} (and its alias @code{binary}) is equivalent to
address@hidden: it specifies no conversion of either character
+codes or end-of-line.
 
 @vindex address@hidden coding system}
   The coding system @code{emacs-internal} specifies that the data is