Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:25:17 +0100
> 
> >> > 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.

Sorry, I don't follow.  Can you tell more what that means?

The situation I was describing is that I need to do something with
undecoded bytes before decoding them, or after encoding them.