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>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:

Hrvoje> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:
>> * jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bien)  on Fri, 05 May 2000
>> | `binary' is just an alias for `no-conversion'. Here's what the manual
>> | says about it:
>> 
>> binary is an alias for no-conversion in FSF Emacs.  XEmacs used not
>> to have a no-conversion (that may have changed).  So be careful.

Hrvoje> As always with Mule, things are even worse.  Under
Hrvoje> XEmacs/Mule, `no-conversion' means "no charset conversion",
Hrvoje> but it still converts newlines.  Only `binary' really means
Hrvoje> binary.

Hrvoje> (If you're wondering why this is so, it's not because we're
Hrvoje> perverse -- this is the way things were setup in the original
Hrvoje> Mule, and they got inherited by XEmacs/Mule before FSF people
Hrvoje> made the swap.)

IIRC, in both FSF Emacs and XEmacs, `raw-text' means "no charset
conversion", but it still converts newlines.  So, binary and raw-text
are the right names, but no-conversion is not.

-- 
Shenghuo