Re: url-retrieve "Multibyte text in HTTP request" error when passing UTF-8

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> This might beg for some better documentation about the string returned
>> by `json-encode`.  After all, AFAIK the JSON format requires utf-8
>> encoding, so it would make a lot of sense for `json-encode` to do the
>> utf-8 encoding directly and make sure it always returns a unibyte string.
>
> An application might not want to send the encoded string over the
> network right away. It might want to insert it into a buffer.

I didn't suggest to change the behavior, only to document it because
both outputs can make sense, so common sense is not sufficient to know
what should be returned.


        Stefan