From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Unicode-2] `read' always returns multibyte symbol Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195051969 15035 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2007 14:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa , ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Katsumi Yamaoka Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 14 15:52:54 2007 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 1IsJbe-0000j1-Gj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:52:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsJbR-00007Y-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsJbO-0008Vt-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsJbN-0008UW-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsJbN-0008UJ-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from tomts16.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.4] helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IsJbN-0005eS-Av for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:25 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.53.194.136]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071114145223.TWDV574.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6FCC68118; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:52:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:39:05 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:83190 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65655 Archived-At: > ! ;; Use a unibyte buffer in order to make `read' read non-ASCII > ! ;; group names (which have been encoded) as unibyte strings. > ! (mm-with-unibyte-buffer > ! (insert-buffer-substring cur) Why is `cur' a multibyte buffer? Since it contains encoded strings, I'd expect it would be better (more robust and convenient) to use a unibyte buffer for it. Stefan