David Kastrup writes: > string-as-unibyte and string-as-multibyte most certainly are available > for going from one to the other. But the commands working on either > unibyte or multibyte strings are the same.
True. Thanks for pointing that out. > Similar for buffers. I have no idea whether this is a problem > vector for creating inconsistent multibyte content. I could > imagine it to be, And indeed it was. > but so could be user-created CCL programs for code conversion. True, but few users ever create CCL programs. It's something only a specialist would do, so as far as I'm concerned that's not an attractive nuisance the way *-as-unibyte are. YMMV etc. _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
