Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:50:02 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> >
> >> Again, I disagree.  Unibyte is a design mistake, and unnecessary.
> >
> > Then what do you call a buffer whose "text" is encoded?
> 
> I can't speak for Stephen, of course, but my impression was he would
> call it "a bad idea".

Then what other ideas to use when Lisp code needs to encode or decode
text manually?