From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly? Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:56:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466470551 6450 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2016 00:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 00:55:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 21 02:55:42 2016 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 1bF9yY-0005hr-7F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:55:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47319 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bF9yX-0002Ho-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bF9yR-0002Hi-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bF9yN-0007xF-JE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bF9yN-0007xB-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bF9yE-0005Rd-S8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:55:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 76-10-168-254.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.168.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:55:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-168-254.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:55:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-168-254.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EERPybc7d2pAm6+3M10P0XtZ8Fw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204625 Archived-At: > As part of discussion on bug http://debbugs.gnu.org/23750, I am > wondering what is the deal with string-to/as-unibyte? How to use them > correctly or are they in their way out (obsolete)? Thanks. The correct way to use them is to not use them and use encode/decode-coding-string instead. Stefan