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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>,  
> Emacs developers <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  Dmitry Gutov 
> <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 16:51:28 +0100
> 
> But you're right, of course: This function has a string-based interface,
> which is pretty meaningless, since no protocols (well, extremely few)
> deal with characters -- they only deal with octet streams.

The Emacs implementation of an octet stream is a unibyte string.