From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eh1mfd09.fsf@gnu.org> <87ob0pnyt6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioqxnhhk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87bnwpov7b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396150397 28972 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2014 03:33:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 03:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 05:33:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WU6Ue-0006wi-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 05:33:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WU6Ue-0001zf-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WU6UU-0001zC-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:33:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WU6UN-0007Gk-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47993) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WU6UF-0007Fs-8D; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s2U3WetH030118; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C458C60469; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:32:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:24:11 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.2 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.2, RV4896=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4896> : inlines <663> : streams <1147483> : uri <1714363> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171190 Archived-At: > For those buffers, there is no reason to interpret the contents > as characters in any particular way. We could consider them as > bytes, and nothing else. That's pretty much what we do nowadays already. Stefan