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: Always CHAR_VALID_P? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:52:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <53908BB0.9050204@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401987189 2419 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2014 16:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 18:53:02 2014 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 1WsauR-0007ou-TI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsauR-0001k1-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsauE-0001Vh-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsauA-0005LE-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:52453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WsauA-0005Kw-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F2DF84DEB; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93451E5B7C; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:52:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 90561B4167; Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:52:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53908BB0.9050204@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:24:32 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172370 Archived-At: > Can we assume that all live multibyte Lisp_Strings always > contains valid characters, except for the cases when some > kind of encoding/decoding is in progress? AFAIK strings cannot hold invalid chars ever. OTOH they may contain invalid byte sequences, although this should hopefully never happen. Stefan