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Re: master 0d7d09b: Test for error with multibyte strings in bindat.el


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: master 0d7d09b: Test for error with multibyte strings in bindat.el
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:32:45 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> +  (should-error (bindat-pack nil nil (decode-coding-string "ö" 'utf-8))))

I don't understand this code: "ö" is a multibyte string,
i.e. a sequence of chars (and not a sequence of bytes), so you can
"encode" it to a sequence of bytes but "decoding" it makes no sense
(and should ideally signal an error, tho I think we currently refrain
from doing so).


        Stefan




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