# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1148151875 0
# Node ID 216c04e10ca306caf461d143d95911f6d3b97135
# Parent  9fb34710a5ddb48ca83394e1319ecf945b6dff9d
(CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING): Elaborate the comment.

diff -r 9fb34710a5dd -r 216c04e10ca3 src/coding.h
--- a/src/coding.h	Sat May 20 18:56:22 2006 +0000
+++ b/src/coding.h	Sat May 20 19:04:35 2006 +0000
@@ -462,7 +462,10 @@
    || (coding)->common_flags & CODING_REQUIRE_DECODING_MASK)
 
 /* Return 1 if the coding system CODING requires code conversion on
-   encoding.  */
+   encoding.
+   The non-multibyte part of the condition is to support encoding of
+   unibyte strings/buffers generated by string-as-unibyte or
+   (set-buffer-multibyte nil) from multibyte strings/buffers.  */
 #define CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING(coding)	\
   ((coding)->src_multibyte		\
    || (coding)->common_flags & CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING_MASK)