From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 21:49:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83lh3jcbj6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r3dbcfju.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462820024 2546 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2016 18:53:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 18:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 20:53:33 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1azqG8-0000KF-7U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 20:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqG1-0007FR-0x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFs-00076V-Dd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFm-0006sp-Hp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFm-0006sl-Ek for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFm-0001Ko-8k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:50:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23487 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23487-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23487.14628197805097 (code B ref 23487); Mon, 09 May 2016 18:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23487) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 May 2016 18:49:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44699 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFP-0001K8-Tr for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44923) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1azqFK-0001Jr-5n for 23487@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqF9-0006nZ-Gl for 23487@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38973) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azqF9-0006nS-DH; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4963 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1azqF7-0003Yp-20; Mon, 09 May 2016 14:49:21 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:118035 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000 > Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org > > I don't have a concrete use case per se, but the API feels incomplete without this functionality, especially given > that creation of multibyte strings is supported and uses unibyte strings under the hood. Unibyte strings are very rarely used in Emacs core, and for a good reason. So I think we'd really want to see real-life use cases before we decide to support them in modules.