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Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings

From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 22:58:52 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) 
> If the search string is multibyte (in my mind this means "multiple bytes
> per character", I guess that's where I went wrong), you have to encode

In ELisp, "multibyte" means "a sequence of characters", whereas
"unibyte" means "a sequence of bytes".


        Stefan
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