From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Solved] RE: Differences between identical strings in Emacs lisp Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pp7gu7by.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <83mw2khvc1.fsf@gnu.org> <834morj19g.fsf@gnu.org> <83egnuhlu0.fsf@gnu.org> <837ftlfp2l.fsf@gnu.org> <20150410033523.671f388b@JRWUBU2> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428641205 10289 80.91.229.3 (10 Apr 2015 04:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 04:46:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 06:46:39 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQpy-0007Hh-Qg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:46:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQpy-0005tA-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQpm-0005ni-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQpj-0005QV-BN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:59845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQpj-0005QQ-4j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YgQph-0007Bh-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.157.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 06:46:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CnkCnqOYlJdGNMM4aWDdUimfajs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103620 Archived-At: >> Even UTF-16, used natively by MS-Windows, is technically >> a multibyte representation. > UTF-16 is a multiword representation (Cuneiform takes 4 bytes per > character), so there's no 'technically' about it. Even the simplest chars like `a' are represented as "multiple bytes", so yes, it's definitely a multibyte representation. Stefan