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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:49:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvm1t3ppsrg.fsf@hawking.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m24m8lrj7k.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo Liu's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:33:19 +0800")

Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> I had two cases of string-to-unibyte to mean I am expecting unibyte
> string and will complain if given something else.

There should be very few places that need a unibyte string.  Basically
only where we are communicating with outside of Emacs, immediately
before decoding or after encoding the string.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-22  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-20 23:40 How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly? Leo Liu
2016-06-21  0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-22  3:33   ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22  7:49     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-06-26  2:02       ` Leo Liu
2016-06-22 14:59     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-25  1:57       ` Leo Liu
2016-06-25  8:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-21  2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-26  2:01 ` Leo Liu

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