Re: suggestion: function: buffer-bytes

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > But for the use case I needed, namely someone composing blog
> > entries using nxml-mode,
> > and then building up an http post message from what they created,
> > the position-bytes solution does work.

> If it worked in some case, it was only by accident, unless they specifically
> decided to use emacs-mule as the coding system for their file (and to switch
> wholesale to utf-8 at the exact time they upgrade their Emacs), which would
> be rather unusual.

Right.  By the way, currently emacs-mule uses 2-bytes, for
instance, for Latin-1 characters, and UTF-8 also uses
2-bytes for them.  So, in the case of sending a Latin-1 text
to a process with UTF-8, position-bytes solution works just
by chance.

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Kenichi Handa
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