From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28] Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:59:51 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3405-Sat18Jan2003154003+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200301200229.LAA16287@etlken.m17n.org> <6480-Mon20Jan2003214849+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200301202055.h0KKtun11691@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043229921 4616 80.91.224.249 (22 Jan 2003 10:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bHl1-0001C4-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:05:19 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18bHmj-0007t6-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:07:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bHkC-0006VV-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bHjg-0006Ge-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:03:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bHgP-0004lu-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bHfj-0004Oe-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18bHfj-0002Rd-00; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:59:51 -0500 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: <200301202055.h0KKtun11691@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Original-cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10968 While we're at it, how about making string-as-multibyte obsolete ? It is not obsolete--there are reasons to use it. I think avoiding string-FOO-multibyte and using decode-coding-string instead would make things a lot more clear. I don't see any advantage in the change.