From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:28:31 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200311130153.KAA04615@etlken.m17n.org> <200311130610.PAA04983@etlken.m17n.org> <200311130901.SAA05204@etlken.m17n.org> <200311140047.JAA06414@etlken.m17n.org> <200311180733.QAA13703@etlken.m17n.org> <200311190006.JAA14847@etlken.m17n.org> <200311210041.JAA18324@etlken.m17n.org> <200311210627.PAA18757@etlken.m17n.org> <200311220125.KAA20128@etlken.m17n.org> <200311230730.QAA21903@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069735345 28006 80.91.224.253 (25 Nov 2003 04:42:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jas@extundo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 05:42:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOV1p-0003Et-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:42:21 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOV1p-000437-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:42:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOVwP-0007Ew-KI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOVwJ-0007EH-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOVuQ-0006g5-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:39:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOVuQ-0006fv-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AOUoR-0006B6-4W; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:28:31 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 23 Nov 2003 18:48:08 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18099 No, as a matter of fact I don't see why in a utf-8 environment, it makes any sense to have a function that turns a multibyte string into a unibyte string encoded in latin-1 (without even complaining when it encounters other characters). There are programs that need to do explicit encoding. This will always be necessary.