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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.12.2016 18:02, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> > Examples of things "most people" are doing "trying to transmit"
> > "nothing but ASCII" using the URL package, please.
>
> I'm not sure what you want an example of.  That most people try to
> transmit nothing but ASCII?

Yes.

> That they may end up with multibyte ASCII
> strings without having "meaning" to (because it should make no
> difference)?

> The first thing is trivially true, and the second I think is also pretty
> much self-evident:
>
> (multibyte-string-p (buffer-substring (point) (- (point) 10)))
> => t

It's absolutely not a given that most applications or libraries that 
people write with Elisp will end up sending ASCII-only text.

Especially if those applications are then available publicly for other 
people to use.