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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 23487@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmn6NmVKVx_qBrbPUoyCMSw+=evd2-m_H8dfmG5Xfp=_qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lh3jcbj6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 May 2016 21:49:01 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
>> 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.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09 16:45 bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings Philipp Stephani
2016-05-09 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 18:06   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-05-09 18:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-12  2:31       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-10-01 12:12         ` Stefan Kangas

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