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: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:01 -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="8345"; 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 Wed Aug 12 04:32:11 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 1k5gYl-00024D-K4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:31:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <83lh3jcbj6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 May 2016 21:49:01 +0300") 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:184726 Archived-At: 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. Best regards, Stefan Kangas