From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <533717B1.7020103@cs.ucla.edu> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2h6yezx.fsf@gnu.org> <533528B9.9040200@cs.ucla.edu> <837g7eybwl.fsf@gnu.org> <5335C288.4090306@cs.ucla.edu> <8338i2f95d.fsf@gnu.org> <5335CBA0.5050007@cs.ucla.edu> <831txlfqy3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396119510 31339 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 18:58:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 19:58:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1WTySS-0007H1-Ur for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:58:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTySS-0002Uy-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:58:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTySI-0002Uj-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTySB-0008Jb-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:43746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTyS3-0008Iy-81; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118339E8019; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vDeQ5lJUIOvJ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-108-0-233-62.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.0.233.62]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 943BD39E8011; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <831txlfqy3.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171166 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I suggested it only for char-equal. That would make char-equal incompatible with upcase, downcase, etc. when in a unibyte buffer, which would be incoherent. Unless you're also suggesting that upcase, downcase, etc. should be no-ops in unibyte buffers? But then they would be incompatible with searching.