Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding

[Stefan Monnier]

>> My point was simply if you stay 100% within multibyte, it all works, and if
>> you stay 100% in unibyte it all works

> The former is true, the latter isn't, AFAIK.  ``Normal'' Emacs
> primitives and subroutines always do TRT with multibyte strings, while
> with unibyte you need to be careful which ones you call.

Care to give an example of what you're thinking about, where purely unibyte
strings and buffers are not properly handled?
After all, such cases are probably bugs.

> That was my point, and the case that started this thread is my evidence.

I must have misunderstood because from what I read in this thread I thought
the problem was due to the fact that one part of the code is using unibyte
strings (for group names) and it's apparently messed up somewhere because it
gets mixed with multibyte data.

Sorry I misunderstood and went on with a rant.


        Stefan