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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	"Iñigo Serna" <inigoserna@gmx.com>,
	"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: url-retrieve "Multibyte text in HTTP request" error when passing UTF-8
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:30:33 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8VEAWQd78qMBd---H+Uw=hzj-o__NcfjJiS=8xQjvq79g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvpna1yd0o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 20:49, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> >> This might beg for some better documentation about the string returned
> >> by `json-encode`.  After all, AFAIK the JSON format requires utf-8
> >> encoding, so it would make a lot of sense for `json-encode` to do the
> >> utf-8 encoding directly and make sure it always returns a unibyte string.
> >
> > An application might not want to send the encoded string over the
> > network right away. It might want to insert it into a buffer.
>
> I didn't suggest to change the behavior, only to document it because
> both outputs can make sense, so common sense is not sufficient to know
> what should be returned.

Oh, I see. Yes please. More libraries should take care to document
their behavior wrt string encodings.



      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-14 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-13 21:08 url-retrieve "Multibyte text in HTTP request" error when passing UTF-8 Iñigo Serna
2020-06-13 22:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-13 23:24   ` Iñigo Serna
2020-06-13 23:27     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-06-14  0:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-14  8:33       ` Yuri Khan
2020-06-14 13:49         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-06-14 17:30           ` Yuri Khan [this message]

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