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: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:31:55 -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> <200301221412.h0MECoA01024@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200301260130.h0Q1Uo518101@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043637644 29333 80.91.224.249 (27 Jan 2003 03:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18czox-0007cf-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:20:27 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18czsx-0006tn-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:24:35 +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 18czkM-0002gE-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:15:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18czjR-0002X0-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18czGU-0004ia-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:45:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz4E-0001nM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18cz3z-0001p2-00; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:31:55 -0500 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" In-reply-to: <200301260130.h0Q1Uo518101@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu) Original-cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il Original-cc: handa@m17n.org 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:11114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11114 The change I suggest is to obsolete those functions and to recommend decode-coding-string instead, which has a perfectly good docstring itself and so do each and every coding-system that you might want to pass to that function. I've decided not to make this change. I tried to explain why; if it isn't clear, I don't know how to explain better. I am sorry I cannot communicate it better.