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Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> 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
> Hrvoje> original Mule, and they got inherited by XEmacs/Mule before
> Hrvoje> FSF people 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.

How can one name be "right"?  Under XEmacs, `no-conversion' and
`raw-text' are synonymous.  Under FSF Emacs, `no-conversion' and
`binary' are synonymous.

The FSF choice probably makes more sense, but as I said, code written
for XEmacs would break if we were to change it now.