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Re: string-as-unibyte
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: string-as-unibyte |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:26:31 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> If a multibyte string is given to mac-code-convert-string,
> and the string is made mutlibyte by string-to-multibyte from
> the raw-byte sequence (ex. inserting a file by raw-text in a
> mutlibyte buffer and extracting a string by
> buffer-substring), using Fstring_as_unibyte is correct.
Indeed, but sadly so. In order to make it clear that the multibyte string
is expected to only contain single-byte chars (including eight-bit-* chars),
a comment is in order.
> Please note that we don't have Fstring_to_unibyte because it
> should work the same way as Fstring_as_unibyte.
Actually no. string-to-unibyte should signal an error if it encounters
a non-ascii non-eight-bit-* char.
Stefan