In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just noticed a minor mistake in lispref/nonascii.texi. Minor, but it > might confuse people who try to understand the meaning of the various > encoding/decoding functions: You are right. I've just installed your change. --- Kenichi Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Index: lispref/nonascii.texi > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lispref/nonascii.texi,v > retrieving revision 1.54 > diff -u -r1.54 nonascii.texi > --- lispref/nonascii.texi 6 Feb 2006 11:55:10 -0000 1.54 > +++ lispref/nonascii.texi 14 May 2006 21:32:03 -0000 > @@ -1174,7 +1174,7 @@ > @code{no-conversion}. > Here are the functions to perform explicit encoding or decoding. The > -decoding functions produce sequences of bytes; the encoding functions > +encoding functions produce sequences of bytes; the decoding functions > are meant to operate on sequences of bytes. All of these functions > discard text properties. > The standard in Emacs w.r.t. the use of the words "decoding" and > "encoding" is as follows: > decoding: stream (file or process output) ==> internal representation > encoding: internal representation ==> stream > Or in other words: > decoding: sequence of bytes ==> sequence of characters > encoding: sequence of characters ==> sequence of bytes > The documentation for the functions below the cited pararagraph > (`encode-coding-region' and others) conform to this. > Oliver > -- > Oliver Scholz 25 Floréal an 214 de la Révolution > Ostendstr. 61 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité! > 60314 Frankfurt a. M. > _______________________________________________ > emacs-pretest-bug mailing list > emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug