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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: distinguishing multibyte/unibyte ASCII |
Date: | Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:46:55 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Isn't Unicode fun? :) Actually it's not really due to Unicode. It's due to the fact that Emacs Lisp doesn't clearly distinguish chars and bytes (and strings of bytes and strings of chars) so we sometimes have to guess which one is meant. In practice it works surprisingly well, and lets most coders live their life without having to know and understand the difference, but the actual precise details are sometimes rather brittle because of its DWIMish nature. Stefan
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