Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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    > I don't think we are talking about the same thing.  I am talking about 
Lisp
    > functions to do conversions on text that does NOT come from files.

    ... Emacs treats all of these cases the same.

They don't HAVE to be treated the same.  We are talking about changes,
here.

But changes may not be needed.  All operations that do encoding or
decoding allow explicit specification of the coding system.


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