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bug#50560: 28.0.50; 'insert-file-contents-literally' on multibyte buffer
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50560: 28.0.50; 'insert-file-contents-literally' on multibyte buffers |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:52:00 +0300 |
> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:58:06 +0200
>
> I thought 'insert-file-contents-literally' literally just inserted the
> file contents, as bytes, but I noticed that in the following code
>
> (create-image
> (with-temp-buffer
> (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
> (insert-file-contents-literally "picure.jpg")
> (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max)))
> nil t)
>
> the call to 'set-buffer-multibyte' is really essential.
It is only essential for some very specific uses of the resulting
buffer, but definitely not for all.