From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nathan Trapuzzano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87ppl452r3.fsf@nbtrap.com> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eh1mfd09.fsf@gnu.org> <87ob0pnyt6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a9c9aqhu.fsf@nbtrap.com> <877g7d3pbe.fsf@nbtrap.com> <87y4zsorcx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396114419 11637 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 17:33:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 18:33:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx8P-0000FK-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:33:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40337 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx8O-0006YQ-Tq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx8G-0006XF-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:33:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx88-0007w0-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:33:24 -0400 Original-Received: from gproxy4-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.23.142]:47816) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx88-0007uB-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:33:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 10445 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 2014 17:33:13 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw3) (10.0.90.84) by gproxy4.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2014 17:33:13 -0000 Original-Received: from host393.hostmonster.com ([66.147.240.193]) by cmgw3 with id jcZ71n0054B3kjm01cZABy; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:33:11 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=O5+q4nNW c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=GZ6qK+eS4AuCRVUKGEKC+Q==:117 a=GZ6qK+eS4AuCRVUKGEKC+Q==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=4GsTxW34auoA:10 a=D0rjyWuMlWIA:10 a=lfvU_ReahkwA:10 a=ngU5ixn2AAAA:8 a=fWyWhr6xdMwA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=Y890Z-fOaPlu_cpcLv4A:9 a=ii61gXl28gQA:10 a=JFHqhSHQ8i4A:10 a=1uY4s15YxNsA:10 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nbtrap.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=LXY9NNcCMQsjbnyfY3E/GWxP45oFt8zDYlyI5kzNRWk=; b=xgtIs+KFNSWJUlKNLxLfCM7y5IsL/w+EvrSiW66HnzxmsDysdxbGKLCndQzJJCJEFWA3QRTkk9sM1C88VRDLj6y4vXj/rvK27QQvaJHROUML1KW7jkfAQVnBNetgwX2p; Original-Received: from [50.90.253.209] (port=51302 helo=Nathan-GNU) by host393.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:CAMELLIA128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1WTx80-0001E2-3i; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:33:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87y4zsorcx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:18:54 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-Identified-User: {1585:host393.hostmonster.com:nbtrapco:nbtrap.com} {sentby:smtp auth 50.90.253.209 authed with nbtrap@nbtrap.com} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 69.89.23.142 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171165 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > _De_coding into a _unibyte_ buffer is a lossy operation by definition > since a unibyte buffer cannot hold the full set of values that > _de_coding delivers. I know. I was responding to what seemed to be a suggestion to just conflate Latin-1 characters with raw bytes.