Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Why should (make-string 1 ?a) produce a unibyte string?  Why can't it
> produce a multibyte string instead?
>
> More generally, how about if we make sure _all_ string-producing
> primitives return multibyte strings, and unibyte strings can only be
> produced by a few specialized ones which have "-unibyte-" in their
> name?

Why?  That doesn't seem to help with the issue being discussed (Stefan's
solution seems pretty good though)....

-Miles

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