From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly?
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:36:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oa6v6zf7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1a8ifctu8.fsf@zeuss-MBP.lan> (message from Leo Liu on Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:40:31 +0800)
> From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:40:31 +0800
>
> As part of discussion on bug http://debbugs.gnu.org/23750, I am
> wondering what is the deal with string-to/as-unibyte? How to use them
> correctly or are they in their way out (obsolete)?
Don't use them, period. They are remnants from the era long gone,
before Emacs used Unicode and UTF-8 as the basis for its internal
representation of characters. Nowadays the only place where such
conversions are sometimes needed are on the C level, deep within Emacs
internals. Applications should never use them.
I'm okay with declaring them obsolete, if it helps.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-20 23:40 How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly? Leo Liu
2016-06-21 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-22 3:33 ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22 7:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-26 2:02 ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25 1:57 ` Leo Liu
2016-06-25 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-06-26 2:01 ` Leo Liu
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