Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>> If the search string is multibyte (in my mind this means "multiple bytes
>> per character", I guess that's where I went wrong), you have to encode
>
> In ELisp, "multibyte" means "a sequence of characters", whereas
> "unibyte" means "a sequence of bytes".

Okay, thanks. I'd thought that distinction was covered by "encoded" vs
"decoded" strings. Maybe the lesson will stick this time.