From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:31:07 +0300 Message-ID: <834n2ifa50.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eh1mfd09.fsf@gnu.org> <87wqfeqkl1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396031477 9005 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2014 18:31:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 28 19:31:26 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 1WTbYq-0001Za-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:31:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35483 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTbYp-0005Gm-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52613) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTbYj-0005Gf-Db for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:31:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTbYe-0007qu-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:42163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTbYY-0007qC-H2; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3500600SQBXK00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:31:05 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N35006OCSRSOQ50@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:31:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wqfeqkl1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:171087 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:50:02 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > > > >> Again, I disagree. Unibyte is a design mistake, and unnecessary. > > > > Then what do you call a buffer whose "text" is encoded? > > I can't speak for Stephen, of course, but my impression was he would > call it "a bad idea". Then what other ideas to use when Lisp code needs to encode or decode text manually?