From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings
Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 21:49:01 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lh3jcbj6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTkrXR3_6oOcuhgZ13Wg03OTDV74seFNCOsCjiUQBjp+w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000)
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000
> Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I don't have a concrete use case per se, but the API feels incomplete without this functionality, especially given
> that creation of multibyte strings is supported and uses unibyte strings under the hood.
Unibyte strings are very rarely used in Emacs core, and for a good
reason. So I think we'd really want to see real-life use cases before
we decide to support them in modules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 16:45 bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings Philipp Stephani
2016-05-09 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 18:06 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-05-09 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-12 2:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-01 12:12 ` Stefan Kangas
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