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* How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly?
@ 2016-06-20 23:40 Leo Liu
  2016-06-21  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Leo Liu @ 2016-06-20 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hi List,

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.

,----[ Eli Zaretskii ]
| neither string-to-unibyte not string-as-unibyte should ever be used in
| applications, their use is more often than not a sign of some basic
| misunderstanding of text encoding.
`----

,----[ Eli Zaretskii ]
| Bottom line: like I said, there should be no reason to use
| string-*-unibyte in modern Emacs code on the url-http level or higher
| (maybe not at all). Its use is a sign of some basic misunderstanding,
| or a bug elsewhere, or remnant of old problems that no longer exist.
| So I think we should reconsider the solution on master as well.
`----

Leo




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2016-06-20 23:40 How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly? Leo Liu
2016-06-21  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-22  3:33   ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22  7:49     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-06-26  2:02       ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22 14:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25  1:57       ` Leo Liu
2016-06-25  8:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21  2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-26  2:01 ` Leo Liu

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