From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28] Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:57:13 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301210020.JAA17567@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043131156 1067 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 06:39:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.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 18as41-0000H2-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:39:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18asFG-0006zr-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:50:50 +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 18arTe-0000dO-0D for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arRo-0000Mb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:59:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arQt-0000F8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:59:03 -0500 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18arQO-0000A8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:58:16 -0500 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA09863; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:57:13 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200301210020.JAA17567@etlken.m17n.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:10926 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10926 On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Kenichi Handa wrote: > In article <200301202055.h0KKtun11691@rum.cs.yale.edu>, "Stefan Monnier" writes: > > While we're at it, how about making string-as-multibyte obsolete ? > > It's not used much and it has been abused many times in the past. > > It is useful for instance in this scenario. I don't > remember a concrete example, but some package is doing this > kind of thing. I think it might be Gnus.