Re: Creating a coding system

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>
>> It would seem that Handa-san is currently the only documentation for
>> the coding system details Emacs has.  Some more redundancy might be a
>> good idea.
>
> We already have that:
>
>
>   32.10 Coding Systems
>   ====================
>
>   When Emacs reads or writes a file, and when Emacs sends text to a
>   subprocess or receives text from a subprocess, it normally performs
>   character code conversion and end-of-line conversion as specified by a
>   particular "coding system".
>
>      How to define a coding system is an arcane matter, and is not
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   documented here.
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I did not mean that we need more redundancy for the statement "It would
seem that Handa-san is currently the only documentation".

-- 
David Kastrup