Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:05:49 +0100
> From: Aurélien Aptel <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, Stephen Leake <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
> 
> > 5) Do we need to provide direct access to string contents?
> 
> Strings are already stored as mostly UTF-8, why would you not provide
> direct access to that, at least read-only?

It's a superset of UTF-8, yes.  However, the deviations are not
insignificant, especially for unibyte strings.  Dealing with their
data requires knowledge that most people don't have (and don't need,
IMO).