bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 23487 wontfix
close 23487
thanks

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000
>>> Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>
>>> I don't have a concrete use case per se, but the API feels incomplete 
>>> without this functionality, especially given
>>> that creation of multibyte strings is supported and uses unibyte strings 
>>> under the hood.
>>
>> Unibyte strings are very rarely used in Emacs core, and for a good
>> reason.  So I think we'd really want to see real-life use cases before
>> we decide to support them in modules.
>
> Is there any use-case here?  Otherwise, it sounds to me like Eli thinks
> that this should be closed as wontfix?  Thanks.

More information was requested, but none was given within 7 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.