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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Unibyte characters
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> 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.