From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <87bnwpov7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396192437 20076 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2014 15:13:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 17:13:51 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 1WUHQj-0002kV-2H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:13:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUHQi-0000fG-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUHQf-0000fB-F2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUHQe-0000bc-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUHQe-0000bY-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUHQd-0005CI-DK; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:13:43 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:39 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:171200 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For those buffers, there is no reason to interpret the contents > as characters in any particular way. We could consider them as > bytes, and nothing else. That's pretty much what we do nowadays already. If we make that 100% true, we could disconnect the multibyte flag from operations (including case conversion) that pertain to text rather than bytes. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.