Re: Encoding again

[Stefan Monnier]

> As far as I can see, there is no or little difference between the
> coding systems:

> emacs-mule
> raw-text
> no-conversion
> binary

binary == no-conversion == raw-text-unix.

raw-text is almost the same except it does end-of-line conversion.

emacs-mule is completely different: reading a file with one of the other
3 encoding will only generate chars between 0 and 255, whereas with
emacs-mule you can get literally any char (it's an encoding loosely
comparable to iso-2022 or to utf-8).

emacs-mule should generally be avoided (it's the internal encoding used
inside Emacs buffers and can change between Emacs versions).


        Stefan