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.help Subject: Re: `write-region' writes different bytes than passed to it? Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:05:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83d0q8136v.fsf@gnu.org> <83wom7knm3.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="221408"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 15:06:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1gtCDn-000vPE-BU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:06:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCDm-0006rA-AX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCDL-0006pU-Q5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:05:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCDH-0005Sj-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:05:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56112 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCDG-0005Rd-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtCDC-000ubH-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:05:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:y9fX8qNXlVnddI5oZ/mt16E22Fw= 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119339 Archived-At: >> > 1. Signal an error whenever Emacs attempts to encode a unibyte string >> > and the encoding isn't "raw-text" or "no-conversion" >> Sounds good to me. > I'm objected to such a change. I would too because of the breakage it can/will introduce. But I still think it's a good idea ;-) [ Lots of good ideas can't be applied, sadly. ] Maybe in this specific case we could introduce a "strict encoding mode" controlled by a config var. Stefan "not volunteering to write the patch"