changeset 70785:99eb5fe9736b

(Coding Systems): Mention the undecided-* coding systems and their aliases.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 20 May 2006 19:19:25 +0000
parents c964932a0438
children 91428d34f26f
files man/mule.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/mule.texi	Sat May 20 19:08:02 2006 +0000
+++ b/man/mule.texi	Sat May 20 19:19:25 2006 +0000
@@ -679,6 +679,13 @@
 variants @code{iso-latin-1-unix}, @code{iso-latin-1-dos} and
 @code{iso-latin-1-mac}.
 
+@cindex @code{undecided}, coding system
+  The coding systems @code{unix}, @code{dos}, and @code{mac} are
+aliases for @code{undecided-unix}, @code{undecided-dos}, and
+@code{undecided-mac}, respectively.  These coding systems specify only
+the end-of-line conversion, and leave the character code conversion to
+be deduced from the text itself.
+
   The coding system @code{raw-text} is good for a file which is mainly
 @acronym{ASCII} text, but may contain byte values above 127 which are
 not meant to encode non-@acronym{ASCII} characters.  With