From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:05 +0900 Message-ID: References: <833a8soxmc.fsf@gnu.org> <83ocreohrv.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248149451 32724 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 04:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 06:10:44 2009 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 1MT6ge-0001Qv-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:10:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51838 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6gd-00028F-Pm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6gJ-0001rd-OJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6gF-0001oe-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38206 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MT6gF-0001oa-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:35008) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MT6g7-0000dZ-Nj; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n6L4A7ag018356; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:07 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n6L4A7WL026048; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:07 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n6L4A5wu009333; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:07 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MT6g1-0006Y1-4H; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:05 +0900 In-Reply-To: <83ocreohrv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:07:48 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:112890 Archived-At: In article <83ocreohrv.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Why do we need to cater to unibyte operation in Emacs 23? > > > 1. Unibyte buffers may be needed for certain internal operations. I > > > am not sure -- we need to ask Handa. > > > > Currently, we are using unibyte buffers for various internal > > operations (e.g rmail, tar-mode, jka-compr, ...). > The code in question decides how to encode portions of a mail buffer > for sending an email message. Then, the mail buffer itself may be unibyte if a user starts Emacs with --unibyte. But, that answer may be out of focus because I'm now writing without reading "the code in question". I'm sorry in that case. I don't have a time to read all the mails of this thread at the moment. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org