Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Richard Stallman]

    Using decode-coding-string is just as easy and makes things much
    more clear so we should encourage it.

I don't see how it makes anything clearer.  It would tend to make the
documentation less clear.  Right now there are two (perhaps in the
future three) functions, each of which has a doc string saying what it
does and what it's good for.  Where would that info go if we make the
change you recommend?