Re: utf-16le vs utf-16-le

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:19:56 +0200
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> In recode they have "surfaces".  So charset is separate from surfaces, for 
> example EOL convention.  That would be nice to have in Emacs as well.

We already do, at least for the EOL format.  Check out
coding-system-change-{text,eol}-conversion, coding-system-eol-type,
and coding-system-eol-type-mnemonic.  But I don't think BOM is treated
as a surface by `recode', unless I'm missing something.