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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte b


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 15:17:12 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> For a multibyte string that was encoded already, encoding by
> utf-8-emacs-unix is IMO the _only_ thing that makes sense.

I disagree: a multibyte string that was encoded already should only
contain ASCII and "eight-bit raw byte chars" (and BTW, would be much
better represented as a unibyte string to start with) so it can be
converted with string-to-unibyte.


        Stefan




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