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bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules
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Noam Postavsky |
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bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:33:31 -0400 |
On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 09:43, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Yes, the only real reason to use unibyte strings is for binary data, I
> > thought?
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> No, that's not the use case for unibyte strings. We have bindat.el
> for that.
Quoting from bindat.el commentary: "Encoded (binary) data is stored in
a unibyte string or vector,"
Does that mean that you think binary data should be stored only in vectors?