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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte b


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 17:59:39 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:06:37 +0200
> 
> Itʼs clear enough to me now. The only thing that trips me up is this
> kind of phrase (from (info "(elisp)Coding System Basics")
> 
>     When you use ‘raw-text’ to encode multibyte text, it does perform
>     one character code conversion: it converts eight-bit characters to
>     their single-byte external representation.
> 
> because I always forget that eight-bit characters have a multi-byte
> representation in the emacs-internal coding system.

So why does that trip you?  It reminds you what you tend to forget, so
it's a good documentation, right?



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