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Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28] |
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Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:09:18 +0300 |
> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:12:49 -0500
>
> If coders such as Eli and myself don't fully understand the semantics
> of string-as-multibyte and string-make-multibyte (and the various ways
> in which they are implicitly called), it's clear that those functions
> should basically not be used by anyone.
That is my opinion as well, FWIW. The string conversion functions
_are_ useful, but they employ lots of ad-hoc decisions to cope with
different, sometimes conflicting, goals. I've heard Handa-san many
times explaining what each one of the function does, but I find
myself forgetting that too soon, and need to consult the code and
conduct experiments every time I bump into them.
By constrast, encode-coding-* and decode-coding-* are very
straightforward.
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28, (continued)
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/01/18
- Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/19
- unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/19
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Eli Zaretskii, 2003/01/20
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/20
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/20
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/20
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Eli Zaretskii, 2003/01/21
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Richard Stallman, 2003/01/22
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/22
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Richard Stallman, 2003/01/23
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/23
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Richard Stallman, 2003/01/24
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Eli Zaretskii, 2003/01/23
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Richard Stallman, 2003/01/24
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/25
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Richard Stallman, 2003/01/26
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/27
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Stefan Monnier, 2003/01/27
- Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28], Kenichi Handa, 2003/01/29