From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 16048@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:11:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv38m7dsja.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k3fj2o5w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:38:51 +0200")
> Just to make it clear: Emacs is perfectly capable of holding raw bytes
> in multibyte strings. That's why we have the eight-bit charset.
When manipulating sequences of bytes (as opposed to sequences of chars),
I find it is preferable to use unibyte strings.
Indeed, multibyte strings can work as well, but they can be more tricky
to work with since `aref' returns a "eight-bit byte" character rather
than a value between 128-255.
Of course, if your string can contain a mix of bytes and chars, you
don't have a choice.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-05 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-04 11:44 bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise michael.albinus
2013-12-04 13:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-04 14:00 ` Josh
2013-12-04 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-04 20:13 ` Josh
2013-12-04 14:05 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-04 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-04 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-05 7:51 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-05 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-05 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-12-05 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-05 19:24 ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-05 19:22 ` Michael Albinus
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