Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think it gets much more transparent than "unibyte flag only
> marks the valid Unicode-in-Emacs character range".  I'm for the range
> 0..255, Andreas for something like 0..127 U 4194176..4194303 which
> I find cumbersome for little return.

Before decoding there is no charset information yet, so using anything
other than the eight-bit charset would be wrong.  After decoding, the
eight-bit charset is used only for undecodable bytes.  That preserves
the distinction between encoded and decoded strings/buffers (except for
the uninteresting trivial ASCII decoding) in a world without unibyte
flag.

Andreas.

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