Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:54:55 -0400
> 
> Indeed, in some cases we might want to work on multibyte text without
> encoding it at all.  Maybe we could have an argument specifying that the
> caller intends to operate on the internal encoding.

Yes, could be.

> But what shouldn't be in those functions is encoding/decoding: if
> encoding/decoding is needed, then it should be done before/after calling
> the functions.

But if we pass buffer text, we could always encode using
buffer-file-coding-system, and IMO that would be the expected result
(provided that the user didn't want to use the internal
representation).  We do this in the likes of write-region, so why not
here?