Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.1030121075455.9650B-100000@is>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kenichi Handa wrote:

>>  > Sorry, I don't think I understand the difference.  What will we have
>>  > in the buffer after process output is converted as you describe in the
>>  > last paragraph above?
>>  
>>  Ok, here's an example (Latin-1 lang. env.).

> Thanks for taking time to explain these subtleties.

>>  (1) Reading a process output by raw-text into a multibyte
>>  buffer does AS conversion.  I think this should do TO
>>  conversion to be consistent with (3).

> I tend to agree, but without knowing the exact reason for the current 
> behavior, I fear that we will break something.

I don't remeber well now.  :-(

Perhpas, because there was a choise only between
string-as-multibyte and string-make-multibyte, and I thought
string-as-multibyte is less surprising than
string-make-multibyte.  That is because the reason for
specifying raw-text or no-conversion for process should be
that one doesn't want code conversion.  If we use
string-make-multibyte, the result is almost the same as
decoding by, for instance, iso-latin-1.

If we had string-to-multibyte at that time, I might have
used it.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org