Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02.12.2016 17:29, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> This is going to break many current callers.  Most people aren't doing
>> anything as weird as trying to transmit non-ASCII text via any of these
>> headers (it's a very uncommon thing to do), but are just passing in
>> normal Emacs strings (containing nothing by ASCII, as is proper).
>
> Do you have some examples?

(multibyte-string-p (symbol-name 'a))
=> t

> I'm sure a well-defined interface will need to have a required
> "encoding" step, or an argument somewhere, at least.

Yes, of course.  The interface will allow the caller to specify the
charset of the data.

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