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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: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:12:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2lcqvn6.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zjog34gi.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:34:37 +0200")

> Beware: byte-to-string returns a unibyte string.  You do NOT want
> unibyte strings in your application code.

IIUC this is dbus code, so it likely handles marshalled data, which
often has to manage bytes rather than chars, so a unibyte string might
be the right thing.


        Stefan "who doesn't actually know what he's talking about"





  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04 19:12 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 [this message]
2013-12-05  7:51         ` Michael Albinus
2013-12-05 17:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-05 19:11             ` Stefan Monnier
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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