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Re: master b8062be 3/5: Remove some compat code from eudc-bob.el


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: master b8062be 3/5: Remove some compat code from eudc-bob.el
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:56:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I think it's a result of the fact that when Mule was introduced, unibyte
> buffers were often used for normal text in the western world (to avoid
> bugs in code that wasn't yet prepared for coding-systems and non-8bit
> chars) but where there was a desire to still support the EOL-conversion
> feature of Mule (which was much better than the previous hacks to
> handle DOS text files).

Right...  but these days, we don't use Unibyte buffers for text at all?
So is this still baggage that we have to carry around?

Hm...  I guess if we have a unibyte ASCII buffer, somebody might still
want to do EOL conversions...

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