Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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?

Redecode right to a "binary" coding system would be my guess.

-- 
David Kastrup