# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1231592143 0
# Node ID b7431d2f12cb90178d57ea33fc8a76db946c5e4d
# Parent  e2baf04d1abede91f2c0be2c76cd7736ea72ceac
Mention inhibit-null-byte-detection.

diff -r e2baf04d1abe -r b7431d2f12cb etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sat Jan 10 12:55:24 2009 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Jan 10 12:55:43 2009 +0000
@@ -1562,6 +1562,12 @@
 have an optional 4th argument specifying a buffer to store the result
 of conversion.
 
++++
+*** The new variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection' controls whether to
+consider text with null bytes as binary data.  By default, it is
+`nil', and Emacs uses `no-conversion' for any text containing null
+bytes.
+
 ---
 *** The functions `set-coding-priority' and `make-coding-system' are obsolete.