From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ethan Glasser-Camp <ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com>
Cc: 12925@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12925: 24.1; string-make-unibyte instead of string-as-unibyte
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:27:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfw46nxcp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqxi24b3.fsf@betacantrips.com> (Ethan Glasser-Camp's message of "Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:45:20 -0500")
> Why does inserting multibyte text into a unibyte buffer corrupt it
> like this?
Because the right thing (i.e. signaling an error) was not backward
compatible with broken code that assumed that chars can be presented
with 8bit (i.e. code written in the glory days of latin-N, koi-8, ...).
We could/should probably try to do the right thing now, since such
broken code is probably much less common.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-18 17:45 bug#12925: 24.1; string-make-unibyte instead of string-as-unibyte Ethan Glasser-Camp
2012-11-19 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-06-01 7:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-01 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-01 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 14:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-01 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 5:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-02 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-02 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-02 13:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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