Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Re: Reliable after-change-functions (via: Using incremental parsing in Emacs)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:11:07 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
>     Stephen> I don't understand what the alternative is. The parser imposes 
> the
>     Stephen> reasonable requirement that the input text be utf-8 (or possibly 
> some
>     Stephen> other standard format). Emacs raw buffer text is not utf-8, so 
> we must
>     Stephen> do some encoding.
> 
> Itʼs pretty close, apart from raw bytes.

Not only raw bytes: also some characters that cannot be unified with
Unicode.