Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Next question: what happens to implementation of encoding?  It
> currently produces raw bytes.  Should it produce eight-bit characters
> instead?  If not, who or what will convert raw bytes into eight-bit
> characters, when they are inserted into a buffer or string, and who or
> what will convert them back when they are written to a file or sent to
> a process?

Writing out a character in the eight-bit charset will produce an
eight-bit character, and vice-versa.

The process is the same, just put on a lower level.  The only visible
difference will be the value of aref: it will produce values in the
range of the eight-bit charset instead of 128-255.  The challenge will
be to find and fix all such assumptions.

Andreas.

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