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Re: Default coding system ?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Default coding system ? |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:43:45 +0200 |
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:10:43 +0100
> >
> > Why do you need courage to read the documentation? The manual doesn't
> > bite, you know. So please do try reading it, and if something there
> > isn't clear, please complain on gnu.emacs.bug about documentation
> > quality.
>
> I agree with Francois that it's a mess.
Care to explain why?
> It don't really blame the documentation -- it's more the design
> that's hard to understand and use, i.e. the multibyte vs. unibyte
> distinction and character-set vs. coding-system vs. mime-charset.
It's a complex issue, so it's no surprise that it's hard to
understand. However, understanding of the design is not (and should
not, IMHO) be an obstacle to efficient use.
> Also, stuff like CCL and MULE isn't particularly well documented.
So you do blame the documentation...
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