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Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation |
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Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:56:03 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Actually, originally Emacs allowed you to treat text (buffers and
>> strings) either as sequences of characters or arrays of bytes, and
This was the case in Emacs-20.1, yes. It was fixed by Emacs-20.3 or
maybe even 20.2 already.
> string-as-unibyte and string-as-multibyte most certainly are available
> for going from one to the other.
And they both suck.
> I have no idea whether this is a problem vector for creating
> inconsistent multibyte content.
It's mostly a problem in that it helps 8bit people stay stuck in the
confusion between bytes and characters.
Stefan