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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2006-05-20 19:04:35 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2006-05-20 19:04:35 +0000
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(CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING): Elaborate the comment.
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diff --git a/src/coding.h b/src/coding.h
index 54553a071fa..5727b57a850 100644
--- a/src/coding.h
+++ b/src/coding.h
@@ -462,7 +462,10 @@ struct coding_system
|| (coding)->common_flags & CODING_REQUIRE_DECODING_MASK)
/* Return 1 if the coding system CODING requires code conversion on
- encoding. */
+ encoding.
+ The non-multibyte part of the condition is to support encoding of
+ unibyte strings/buffers generated by string-as-unibyte or
+ (set-buffer-multibyte nil) from multibyte strings/buffers. */
#define CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING(coding) \
((coding)->src_multibyte \
|| (coding)->common_flags & CODING_REQUIRE_ENCODING_MASK)