From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 05:12:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83r3dbcfju.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh3jcbj6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36972"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Philipp Stephani , 23487@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 14:13:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kNxSq-0009SA-4C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 01 Oct 2020 05:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 05:12:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:01 -0700") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:189490 Archived-At: tags 23487 wontfix close 23487 thanks Stefan Kangas writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >>> 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. > > Is there any use-case here? Otherwise, it sounds to me like Eli thinks > that this should be closed as wontfix? Thanks. More information was requested, but none was given within 7 weeks, so I'm closing this bug.