From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Date: 22 Mar 2002 09:37:02 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lmclzbdd.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016757580 13110 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2002 00:39:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kim F. Storm" , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16oD5o-0003PL-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:39:40 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16oDCF-0004bB-00 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:46:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oD5N-00062Y-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:39:13 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.132]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16oD3X-0005xS-00; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:37:19 -0500 Original-Received: from tc-2-235.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.25.235] helo=tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp) by smtp02.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 16oD3U-0008V9-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:37:16 +0900 Original-Received: by tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C45E3040; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:37:02 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2108 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2108 Eli Zaretskii writes: > Emacs 21 is perfectly capable of holding binary data in a multibyte > buffer, so there's no need to do this on the Lisp level. If Emacs > decides that a buffer needs to be switched to unibyte mode, it will do > so automatically. I agree strongly. Unibyte strings as `an interface' should go away. A unibyte string (or buffer?) could reference a single character set that applies to every character in them; if you try to add a character not in that character set, it would convert the whole thing to multibyte, and then add the character. -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel