From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87fvm1q9o4.fsf@igel.home> 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> <87ob0pnyt6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioqxnhhk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396108711 18623 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 15:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 16:58:25 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 1WTveK-0005pm-Jw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTveK-0001wv-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:58:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTveC-0001v4-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTve7-0003LF-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:48292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTve1-0003K6-JY; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fx4Mw1nlkz4KK3S; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fx4Mw0ZLbzbbfN; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RhAkzEw3_8UJ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:03 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: Oy8W6b6XCJoZ0wTIUROLSkLJK0yoCVttlAQFpkNgbto= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-188-174-150-178.dynamic.mnet-online.de [188.174.150.178]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 33B522C35DE; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:58:03 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Why was I BORN? In-Reply-To: <87ioqxnhhk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:37:27 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 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:171151 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > There seem to be conflicting opinions about that, and I would > certainly disagree as there are scads of European charsets that > happily fit into bytes. Unibyte strings are about raw bytes, not characters. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."