From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 22:56:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190525191039.14136.23307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525191040.CCD6C207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83v9xv2649.fsf@gnu.org> <83imtv1fbf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="201555"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 28 04:57:07 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSIU-000qKZ-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 04:57:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56199 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSIT-0000TZ-Rh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33299) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSHt-0000TT-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSHs-0005a2-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48384 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSHs-0005Yg-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 22:56:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVSHo-000par-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2019 04:56:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:nQmCaTJGcPOxGhJxJUlXeubfpiQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:237069 Archived-At: >> > For a multibyte string that was encoded already, encoding by >> > utf-8-emacs-unix is IMO the _only_ thing that makes sense. >> I disagree: a multibyte string that was encoded already should only >> contain ASCII and "eight-bit raw byte chars" > But both ASCII and raw bytes have multibyte representation. Not sure why you say "but" here: I was also talking abut a multibyte string, so I obviously agree. > If the destination of the encoding is a multibyte buffer, that is what > you get there, and then taking buffer-substring will give you > a multibyte string with encoded text. I don't see why we shouldn't > support this scenario. I'm not sure where you read that I was arguing we shouldn't support this scenario. I was just pointing out that utf-8-emacs-unix is not the only thing that makes sense: string-to-unibyte should work just as well (if not better). Stefan