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 15:17:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190525191039.14136.23307@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20190525191040.CCD6C207F5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83v9xv2649.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="57612"; 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 Mon May 27 21:20:18 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 1hVLAQ-000Eoy-Mf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 21:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49786 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVLAP-0006D7-Lf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 15:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVLAH-0006Cq-Hq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 15:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVLAE-00038m-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 15:20:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33858 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hVLAC-0002xV-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 15:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hVLA9-000EVj-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 May 2019 21:20:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:viGEbUC90analzVWzJar/mO55DE= 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:237054 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" (and BTW, would be much better represented as a unibyte string to start with) so it can be converted with string-to-unibyte. Stefan