Re: master d57bb0c: Treat passed strings as raw-text when percent-escaping in epg

[Andreas Schwab]

On Dez 12 2019, Robert Pluim wrote:

> "can contain non-ASCII characters encoded using UTF-8", which means
> they end up in a multi-byte string in emacs.

Only encoded data can contain UTF-8 encoded characters.  A decoded
string just contains (Unicode) characters.

> No. The string that is passed to epg--decode-percent-escape can
> contain non-ASCII characters encoded as UTF-8,

If the argument of epg--decode-percent-escape is a multi-byte string,
then it isn't encoded.

> In order to convert those percent-escaped characters correctly, the
> string has to be treated as a unibyte array of bytes

Why?

Andreas.

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