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Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el |
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Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:03:58 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Dez 28 2016, Philipp Stephani <address@hidden> wrote:
> If you want unibyte strings to represent octet streams, then unibyte
> strings must be usable in application code, because octet streams are a
> concept that exists in reality, and applications must be able to support
> them in some way. If you don't want unibyte strings, then you need to
> provide some different way to represent octet streams.
Octet streams are basically encoded strings, and we use unibyte strings
for encoded strings. That's the only place where unibyte strings should
be used in Emacs.
Andreas.
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- Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el, (continued)
Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el, Philipp Stephani, 2016/12/28
Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el, Philipp Stephani, 2016/12/28
Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el, Philipp Stephani, 2016/12/28
Re: bug#23750: 25.0.95; bug in url-retrieve or json.el, Philipp Stephani, 2016/12/28