Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Richard Stallman]

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    > For those buffers, there is no reason to interpret the contents
    > as characters in any particular way.  We could consider them as
    > bytes, and nothing else.

    That's pretty much what we do nowadays already.

If we make that 100% true, we could disconnect the multibyte flag
from operations (including case conversion) that pertain to text
rather than bytes.

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