Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     >             (setq output (decode-coding-string output
>     >             buffer-file-coding-system))
>
>     And this decode-coding-string treats the internal byte sequence
>     of a multibyte string OUTPUT as utf-8, thus you get some
>     garbage.
>
> Is it reasonable to operate with decode-coding-string on a multibyte
> string?  If that is nonsense, maybe we should make it get an error,
> to help people debug such problems.

In my case, this might have helped.  I would not have been able to
make head or tails of the error at first, but without the error I
would have looked elsewhere for the problem.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum