Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> The internal representation of the decoded text could include both.
> If some of the bytes in the original byte stream couldn't be decoded
> using the specified coding-system, they will be represented as raw
> bytes, using 2-byte sequences.  OTOH, Latin characters successfully
> decoded into codepoints less than 256 will take 1 byte.
> Again, this is just the internal representation of what was decoded.

Great, thanks.

But now I wonder, what can we do with this representation.
I guess set-buffer-multibyte will convert it to the intended chars, but
that bugs the question "why bother deciding into the unibyte buffer and
call set-buffer-multibyte afterwards rather than do the reverse"?
Anything else we can do with it?


        Stefan