Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Stefan Monnier]

> In one sense, it seems clean to use the concept of decoding
> and encoding for all unibyte<->multibyte conversions
> coherently.  But, that hides what Emacs actually does.

You mean that string-FOO-multibyte uses special-cased code
and that there is thus a difference of efficiency ?

> > unibyte strings are sequences of bytes while multibyte
> > strings are sequences of chars.
> Unfortunately no.

I don't think there is any "truth" here.  There are simply different
ways to look at the same thing.


        Stefan