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Re: "no-conversion" coding system
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: "no-conversion" coding system |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:04:09 -0400 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:35 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> >> Its other name "binary" is a lot more unequivocal.
> > Only if you are a programmer who knows that binary files are usually
> > read with no conversions. Otherwise, the name "binary" doesn't have
>
> Since the `no-conversion' method depends on the underlying byte-encoding
> used in a file, it is inherently something for programmers,
> bit-twiddlers, ...
I didn't mean Lisp programmers, I meant C/C++ programmers. Many
people program in Lisp without knowing anything about low-level OS
stuff.
- Re: ^M in the info files, (continued)
- Re: ^M in the info files, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/07/09
- "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Kenichi Handa, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files), Kenichi Handa, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/09
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/14
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Stefan Monnier, 2008/07/14
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/07/15
- Re: "no-conversion" coding system, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/20