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Subject: Re: Coding system conversion error (was Re: abort in
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:01:40 -0500
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It is possible for a multibyte string to have NBYTES = NCHARS.
The clean fix is for the args to allocate_string_data to indicate
explicitly whether the string is unibyte or multibyte.

This could be done with another argument, or by specifying -1
for NBYTES when the string is unibyte.