Re: problem with system_eol_type

[Jason Rumney]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Is there any good reason why Gnus uses coding systems of the form `foo'
> rather than `foo-unix'?
>
> This said, there's clearly a problem of backward compatibility since the
> "buggy" code worked in Emacs-21.
>   

Gnus is released with Emacs, so this needn't be a concern if it is fixed 
in the Gnus source before release.

The question is, do any other packages rely on the default eol-type for 
encoding being Unix? For most uses, it shouldn't matter, it is only when 
encoding to a string rather than a file that there is a problem if I 
understand the Gnus case correctly.