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Re: One example of code I can't understand


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> In Emacs-23 it doesn't make much sense (because unification, OFFSET is
> always 0).  It's used in mm-find-mime-charset-region (via
> mm-iso-8859-x-to-15-region) to provide a "poor man's unification":
[...]
> Now that we have utf-8, this is unnecessary since we can always encode
> the whole text with just a single coding-system, without having to break
> it down into chunks.

Please keep in mind that Gnus wants to support older Emacs versions
and XEmacs, see (info "(gnus)Emacsen").  So please don't remove this
code.

Bye, Reiner.
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