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"no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:54:28 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

>> What is the coding system of emacs/info/efag when you visit
>> that file directly?

> Both when I visit it directly and when I access it through Info,
> buffer-file-coding-system is `no-conversion'.

BTW, could we get rid of `no-conversion' (or at least make it obsolete
and deprecated)?

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.  Better use the name `binary', I think.


        Stefan




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