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Contovounesios" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 20:24:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87mujyawzj.fsf@tcd.ie> References: <83ef77z371.fsf@gnu.org> <88B2D883-45AD-4432-9FE1-D4E24709E294@gmail.com> <831s37ypra.fsf@gnu.org> <07AE3DD5-8AEB-4A7C-B4D3-B20D1593E8DF@gmail.com> <83muluyet7.fsf@gnu.org> <87o94e2ogz.fsf@tcd.ie> <83tve6i06z.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="124105"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 34873@debbugs.gnu.org, lg.zevlg@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 07 21:26:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5j8-000W9d-Jd for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 21:26:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5j7-0005hd-KZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 15:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5j1-0005b6-7A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 15:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5j0-0005zb-9I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 15:26:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5iz-0005yq-TJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 15:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hO5iz-0008Sf-Lp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 May 2019 15:26:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Basil L. 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Contovounesios" >> Cc: , <34873@debbugs.gnu.org> >> Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 17:55:56 +0100 >> >> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but would the functions >> unibyte-string, string-to-unibyte, string-as-unibyte et al. be of any >> use here? > > I'm not sure I follow: how can these functions help writing code in a > module? A module cannot be written in Lisp, and you cannot call these > functions on a C string, only on a Lisp string. > > What am I missing? It could be I that is missing something, but AIUI the module API already provides module_make_string for creating a multibyte Lisp string from a C string, which can then be passed to one of the aforementioned functions via module_funcall, no? In other words, I'm asking whether the aforementioned functions are in any way a better alternative to the encode-coding-string approach previously proposed. Thanks, -- Basil