Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard M Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
>     a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
>     conversion going on.

> `no-conversion' used to really mean no conversion.
> Why has that changed?

Nothing is changed.  When you insert a file in a multibyte
buffer with no-conversion, each eight-bit code is converted
to a special 2-byte form to represent eight-bit character.

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Kenichi Handa
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