SEMI NEWS --- history of major-changes.
Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+* Changes in SEMI 1.5
+
+** text presentation
+
+ Change text presentation mechanism. In anything older than SEMI
+1.4, text presentation mechanism is based on filter model. However it
+has design problem about conversion between byte representation and
+text presentation. So SEMI was changed to use
+body-presentation-method to display text entity. In this purpose, old
+text decoding features were abolished and introduces news features
+(cf. next section).
+
+** mime-raw-representation-type and mime-raw-representation-type-alist
+
+ Abolish `mime-text-decoder' and `mime-text-decoder-alist' because of
+text presentation mechanism change (cf. previous section). Instead of
+it, SEMI introduces variable about representation-type of
+mime-raw-buffer. If it is `binary', mime-raw-buffer is as same as
+network representation. If it is `cooked', mime-raw-buffer is
+code-converted.
+
+ `mime-raw-representation-type-alist' is an alist of major-mode
+vs. representation-type. Each element looks like
+
+ (SYMBOL . REPRESENTATION-TYPE).
+
+SYMBOL is major-mode or t. t means default.
+
+ `mime-raw-representation-type' is a buffer local variable of
+mime-raw-buffer. If it is non-nil, it overrides
+`mime-raw-representation-type-alist'.
+
+ In addition, `mime-raw-buffer-coding-system-alist' was abolished.
+Because representation-type has enough information.
+
+\f
* Changes in SEMI 1.4
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