bug#12925: 24.1; string-make-unibyte instead of string-as-unibyte

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  12925@debbugs.gnu.org,
>   ethan.glasser.camp@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:09:35 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Please note that I wasn't talking about inserting raw bytes, whether
> > they come from unibyte or multibyte buffers, I was talking about
> > inserting multibyte text that represents human-readable characters.
> 
> OK, then we're in violent agreement there.  I was simply pointing out
> that we can't change insertion of multibyte text in the simple way you
> seemed to be suggesting (i.e., just insert the bytes in the multibyte
> string

Yes, we need special handling of raw bytes, as usual.

> because a multibyte raw character is represented by several bytes
> (is it two or three? I forget)).

2 or 5.