From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org,Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 07:17:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F0B61E6-C0CA-449B-B432-095569589168@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5zpvwark.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On May 28, 2019 5:56:18 AM GMT+03:00, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> > For a multibyte string that was encoded already, encoding by
> >> > utf-8-emacs-unix is IMO the _only_ thing that makes sense.
> >> I disagree: a multibyte string that was encoded already should only
> >> contain ASCII and "eight-bit raw byte chars"
> > But both ASCII and raw bytes have multibyte representation.
>
> Not sure why you say "but" here: I was also talking abut a multibyte
> string, so I obviously agree.
>
> > If the destination of the encoding is a multibyte buffer, that is
> what
> > you get there, and then taking buffer-substring will give you
> > a multibyte string with encoded text. I don't see why we shouldn't
> > support this scenario.
>
> I'm not sure where you read that I was arguing we shouldn't support
> this scenario. I was just pointing out that utf-8-emacs-unix is not
> the
> only thing that makes sense: string-to-unibyte should work just as
> well
> (if not better).
>
>
> Stefan
string-to-unibyte is also marked obsolete. Robert was asking how to use encoding functions instead of the obsolete string-as-unibyte; advising to use yet another obsolete function makes little sense to me.
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2019-05-25 19:41 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer Stefan Monnier
2019-05-25 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-25 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-25 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-25 21:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-26 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 9:47 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-27 12:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-27 13:02 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-27 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-27 13:49 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-27 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 6:23 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-28 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 3:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 4:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 11:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 17:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 23:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 19:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 2:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 4:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-28 6:21 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-28 11:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 11:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 17:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-28 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 2:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-29 16:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-29 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-29 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-27 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-27 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-27 20:17 ` Richard Stallman
2019-05-28 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 7:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-05-28 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 15:11 ` Robert Pluim
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