Re: "no-conversion" coding system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
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> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:34:13 +0900
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>  > no-conversion doesn't mean that the text will _look_ the same, it
>  > means the byte stream will be the same.
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> That's true as a definition, and incorrect as a matter of fact in
> multibyte buffers.  Unless Emacs enforces "no-conversion is unibyte",

It does, as a matter of fact.

> In any case, only Emacs maintainers should ever need to care about
> the representational transformations performed by coding systems

I most strongly disagree, but maybe I don't understand what you mean
by ``representational transformations''.