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: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:46:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83y4zsdbz3.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <533717B1.7020103@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396122456 28701 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 19:47:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 20:47:25 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 1WTzDr-0007aX-Qf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:47:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTzDr-0000Kw-EW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTzDk-0000Hr-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTzDf-000682-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:47:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:39846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTzDf-00067t-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3700400QKLIP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:46:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N37004M5QXSEJ30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:46:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <533717B1.7020103@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:171169 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:57:53 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 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. So now _you_ are looking for a perfect solution?