Re: Lstreams, coding and md5 (was: Re: [PATCH] menubar selection in mswindows)
Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote...
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| "Kirill M. Katsnelson" <kkm(a)kis.ru> writes:
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| > Buffer-local variable buffer-file-coding-system contains coding system
| > for the current buffer.
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| True, but that variable doesn't exists for strings. For instance:
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| (md5 "some Japanese text")
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| This is what the CODING-SYSTEM argument and the guessing code is there
| for.
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This is what undecided streams are for, but the comment in md5 about
hit and miss is unfortunately rather correct...
coding-system-for-write is absolutely no friend of yours, 'cause it is
constantly nil, and can be nothing else.
Kirill