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> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:30:12 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Actually, Iʼm wrong here. (encode-coding-string string 'utf-8) will
> work as well, Iʼd wrongly assumed it would produce a multibyte string.

The question is not what will or won't work, the question is what is
better, I think.  And I don't think Stefan explained his rationale for
preferring UTF-8.