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Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:16:10 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> What representation is used for them is secondary, but using different
>> representations for the two cases doesn't seem to be a source
>> of problems. The source of problems is that inherited history where we
>> mixed the unibyte and multibyte objects and treid to pretend they were
>> just one and the same thing and that conversion between them can be
>> done automatically.
> Er, they *were* one and the same thing because of string-as-unibyte
> and friends.
string-as-unibyte returns a new string, so no: they were not the same.
Stefan
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., (continued)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Jason Rumney, 2009/11/19
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Miles Bader, 2009/11/19
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/19
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/19
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/20
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.,
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- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/20
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stefan Monnier, 2009/11/22
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., David Kastrup, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., David Kastrup, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21