Re: How to get buffer byte length (not number of characters)?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Joseph Turner <joseph@ushin.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  schwab@suse.de,  adam@alphapapa.net
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:24:45 -0700
> 
> > So maybe I misunderstand how these plz.el facilities are used, but up
> > front this sounds like a mistake.
> 
> It could be.  Eli, Adam, what do you think about the default coding
> systems for encoding the request body in the attached patch?

I think it is better to use detect-coding-region instead, if
buffer-file-coding-system is undecided.

> > By "optionally" you mean that it doesn't always happen, except if the
> > caller requests that?  If so, the caller of plz.el should decode the
> > text manually before using it in user-facing features.
> 
> By default, `plz' decodes response body according to the 'Content-Type'
> charset (or utf-8 as fallback).  Passing `:decode nil' stops that.

Sounds correct.

> default-file-name-coding-system?

That's for file names, so it is not what you want here.