From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to use string-to/as-unibyte correctly? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:49:55 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466581963 13331 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2016 07:52:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Liu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 09:52:29 2016 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 1bFcxY-0002SH-I0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56332 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFcxX-0000kt-H4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 03:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFcvA-0006No-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 03:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFcv6-0004QX-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 03:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFcv6-0004QG-HR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 03:49:56 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11786AC5B; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:49:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: Hey, LOOK!! A pair of SIZE 9 CAPRI PANTS!! They probably belong to SAMMY DAVIS, JR.!! In-Reply-To: (Leo Liu's message of "Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:33:19 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204664 Archived-At: Leo Liu 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."