Re: string-as-unibyte

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>]

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:41:33 +0900, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> said:

> I was trying to make a coding system that almost works as utf-8, but
> additionally does "HFS+ composition" (canonical composition with
> some exclusions) on decoding.

> 	(when str
> 	  (erase-buffer)
> 	  (insert (if enable-multibyte-characters
> 		      (string-as-multibyte str) str)))

Maybe this part should have been string-to-multibyte.

BTW, I noticed that backslashes in the docstring of
string-as-multibyte are stripped off as follows:

If you're not sure, whether to use `string-as-multibyte' or
`string-to-multibyte', use `string-to-multibyte'.  Beware:
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "201") 0) -> 129 (aka ?201)
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "300") 0) -> 192 (aka ?300)
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "300201") 0) -> 192 (aka ?300)
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "300201") 1) -> 129 (aka ?201)
but
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "201300") 0) -> 2240
   (aref (string-as-multibyte "201300") 1) -> <error>

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp