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bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:11:11 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Just to make it clear: Emacs is perfectly capable of holding raw bytes
> in multibyte strings. That's why we have the eight-bit charset.
When manipulating sequences of bytes (as opposed to sequences of chars),
I find it is preferable to use unibyte strings.
Indeed, multibyte strings can work as well, but they can be more tricky
to work with since `aref' returns a "eight-bit byte" character rather
than a value between 128-255.
Of course, if your string can contain a mix of bytes and chars, you
don't have a choice.
Stefan
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Stefan Monnier <=
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