bug#40407: [PATCH] slow ENCODE_FILE and DECODE_FILE

[Mattias Engdegård]

5 apr. 2020 kl. 15.28 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

> That is true, of course, but many/most of our strings are multibyte
> nowadays, even if they are ASCII.  Suddenly getting a unibyte string
> instead would be surprising, I think, even if no one should depend on
> it not happening.  (NOCOPY case is different: then it's the caller's
> responsibility to deal with the issue.)  So I'd rather we produced a
> multibyte string when "decoding" by copying.

I don't agree fully but it is definitely not a strongly held opinion, so I 
followed your suggestion.

> One subtle point regarding this comment: I'd remove the "unibyte"
> part

Right, done. Thanks for the reviews!