Re: should mbox be opened in unibyte mode

[jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien)]

Vladimir wrote:

>Here at home i only have GNU Emacs 20.4, and describe-coding-system
>says about `binary':
>
[...]
>Perhaps, 20.6 has a more verbose description (which states in
>particular that 'binary forces unibyte).

There is no substantial difference between GNU 20.4 and 20.6 in this
respect (21 will introduce some important changes).

My quotation come from the "Coding systems" section of Emacs manual
--- look at "International character support" chapter or search the
info files for relevant phrases. The Elisp manual contains also
useful information (IHMO, some of it would be better placed in the
user manual).

>(btw, where i can access the current CVS emacs version for testing?)

It's not so simple, but you definitely will be welcomed as a
pretester. Contact Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> for details.

>(BTW, when a buffer is multibyte, C-x RET f binary RET is not supposed
>to switch to unibyte mode, right? only opening a file with a binary
>mode (C-x RET c binary RET C-x C-f filename RET) does this?)

Right.

Regards

Janusz

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