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Re: decode-coding-string and consing
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: decode-coding-string and consing |
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Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:32:40 +0200 (IST) |
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
> >> Under what conditions is the decoding operation "trivial"?
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> > If CODING-SYSTEM is nil or such that no encoding is necessary at all.
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> But I don't understand why any encoding is needed at all in:
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> (decode-coding-string "abc" 'us-ascii t)
Why did you use us-ascii at all here? It's not really a coding system.
Why not nil or raw-text?
Anyway, is there some real problem behind this discussion?