From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 28bf387: Tweak Fdirectory_append for efficiency
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 08:38:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7gizynp.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1fny6s4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Jul 2021 20:13:15 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> You should indeed be able to do that, that's my case #2. The case
> that doesn't have to work and doesn't make sense is this
>
> (multibyte-string-p (encode-coding-string "bár" 'latin-1))
> => nil
>
> (multibyte-string-p "/tmp/bár")
> => t
>
> (directory-append "/tmp/bár" (encode-coding-string "bár" 'latin-1))
> => "/tmp/b\303\241r/b\341r"
The function isn't really concerned with charsets -- that's an
orthogonal issue.
The user may well have a unibyte string that contains non-ASCII octets
(note -- not characters), and I see no reason why a string concatenating
function should refuse to handle those. It's up to the caller.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-25 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-24 16:27 master 28bf387: Tweak Fdirectory_append for efficiency Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 16:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 16:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 17:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 6:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-25 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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