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* Always CHAR_VALID_P?
@ 2014-06-05 15:24 Dmitry Antipov
  2014-06-05 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Dmitry Antipov @ 2014-06-05 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs development discussions

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?

Dmitry

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* Re: Always CHAR_VALID_P?
  2014-06-05 15:24 Always CHAR_VALID_P? Dmitry Antipov
@ 2014-06-05 16:52 ` Stefan Monnier
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2014-06-05 16:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dmitry Antipov; +Cc: Emacs development discussions

> 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



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