From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203065653 21140 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2008 08:54:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Kenichi Handa To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 15 09:54:36 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPwL5-0006Os-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:54:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPwKb-0000IC-BR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:54:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPwKX-0000Gn-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:54:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPwKW-0000Gb-Bp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPwKW-0000GY-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPwKP-0001Qd-0H; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:53:53 -0500 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m1F8ropB025588; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.112.215] [10.114.112.215]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 384CE3A3; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:42:13 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89146 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Why should (make-string 1 ?a) produce a unibyte string? Why can't it > produce a multibyte string instead? > > More generally, how about if we make sure _all_ string-producing > primitives return multibyte strings, and unibyte strings can only be > produced by a few specialized ones which have "-unibyte-" in their > name? Why? That doesn't seem to help with the issue being discussed (Stefan's solution seems pretty good though).... -Miles -- Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.