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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

Kyle> Martin Buchholz writes:
>> The `native' encoding of XEmacs-latin-1 is iso8859-1, which is
>> represented in XEmacs-Mule as the 'binary coding-system.

Kyle> Is this the same as `no-conversion'?

Almost. 

Coding systems come in families that differ only in the way that
end-of-line is handled.

no-conversion       (end-of-line separator sequence is autodetected).
no-conversion-unix  (end-of-line === LF)
no-conversion-dos   (end-of-line === CRLF)
no-conversion-mac   (end-of-line === CR)

binary is really identical to no-conversion-unix.

If your input file contains a CRLF sequence, then the input file may
be auto-detected to be a DOS file, and the ^M will not be visible in
the buffer if 'no-conversion is used, while it will be visible in the
buffer if 'binary is used.

On Unix especially, the 2 are almost identical, so it is easy to be
imprecise and confuse the two.

Steven: this question might go into the Mule part of the FAQ.

Martin

