From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:44:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4hgwqns.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5boq17r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:41:47 -0400
>
> IIUC, this part of the manual dates back to the introduction of Mule,
> when many people were using Emacs in unibyte mode.
Yes.
> Nowadays unibyte mode is not recommended
I agree, but I was talking about the ELisp manual; Lisp programmers do
need to know about unibyte buffers and strings, even if users are
discouraged from using the unibyte mode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 11:05 Unibyte characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-31 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-31 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-31 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-01 10:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-02 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 19:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
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