From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UDP/DNS in Emacs
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:18:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204010218.g312IZm12148@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7263-Sun31Mar2002200101+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il
> > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> > Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
> > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:55:35 +0200
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> >
> > > Decode the data with raw-text-unix, and you should be fine.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't help, please tell the details.
> >
> > I had just forgotten how to do all that stuff. After getting a
> > unibyte buffer for dealing with binary data, it all just works.
>
> IMHO, using unibyte buffers is asking for trouble. It's the main
> reason for those \201 beauties popping up in user buffers. Emacs 21
> doesn't need that anymore (although they are still supported).
And I disagree (and I think RMS partly disagrees as well).
When dealing with bytes rather than chars, using unibyte buffers
is the right thing to do.
It's the use of bytes in multibyte buffers that creates the problems
where \201 can occur.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-01 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-30 17:21 UDP/DNS in Emacs Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-30 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-30 18:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-30 19:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-30 21:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-03-30 22:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-30 23:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-31 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-31 14:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-31 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-01 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-04-01 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-01 16:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-31 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-31 17:08 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-31 16:40 ` Richard Stallman
2002-03-31 16:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2002-03-31 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-02 12:34 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-03 7:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-04 15:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-04 15:08 ` Alan Shutko
2002-04-05 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-05 10:57 ` Paul Eggert
2002-04-05 12:03 ` Per Abrahamsen
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