From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Removing set-unibyte-charset Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204648836 7413 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2008 16:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 17:41:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWaBx-00029R-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:40:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaBP-00039H-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaAW-0002o5-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaAR-0002mn-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaAR-0002mi-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWaAQ-000677-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:02 -0500 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E382CF8EC; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:39:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4733FE0; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 279076C258; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:26:08 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91295 Archived-At: >> > Are you going to change the >> > behaviour of unibyte<->multibyte conversion? >> Clearly that will change it, indeed. >> E.g. string-make-multibyte == string-to-multibyte after that removal, >> for example. > Ok, I see. It's a big overhaul. :-) What do you mean by a big overhaul? The first step is nothing more than removing Fset_unibyte_charset (and removing the few calls to it). After that, many more changes can be applied, but these are nothing more than optimizations (e.g. remove unibyte-charset since it's constant, ...). Stefan