From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:55:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uskztkqlv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buove4qob1d.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (message from Miles Bader on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900)
> From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Why should (make-string 1 ?a) produce a unibyte string? Why can't it
> > produce a multibyte string instead?
> >
> > More generally, how about if we make sure _all_ string-producing
> > primitives return multibyte strings, and unibyte strings can only be
> > produced by a few specialized ones which have "-unibyte-" in their
> > name?
>
> Why?
Because unibyte strings are evil, and shouldn't be needed in Emacs,
except in a few very specialized situations.
> That doesn't seem to help with the issue being discussed (Stefan's
> solution seems pretty good though)....
The fact that (make-string 1 ?a) produces a unibyte string was
mentioned as one problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-16 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 2:36 (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR) Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 2:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 3:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-13 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 18:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-13 19:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-13 22:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 1:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-14 1:49 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-14 18:10 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 22:40 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 1:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-15 1:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-15 7:27 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-15 12:58 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 23:37 ` Leo
2008-02-15 12:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-14 4:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-14 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-15 1:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-15 4:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-15 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-15 8:53 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-16 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-02-16 5:53 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-16 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-17 20:29 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 4:00 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-02-18 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 22:01 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-13 23:13 ` Miles Bader
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-15 7:11 Kenichi Handa
2008-04-15 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-17 1:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-05-07 19:31 Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 6:54 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-14 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-14 12:50 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-15 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-15 6:11 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
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