Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Emacs 21 is perfectly capable of holding binary data in a multibyte 
> buffer, so there's no need to do this on the Lisp level.  If Emacs 
> decides that a buffer needs to be switched to unibyte mode, it will do
> so automatically.

I agree strongly.  Unibyte strings as `an interface' should go away.

A unibyte string (or buffer?) could reference a single character set
that applies to every character in them; if you try to add a character
not in that character set, it would convert the whole thing to
multibyte, and then add the character.

-Miles
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