Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Mo., 9. Mai 2016 um 19:22 Uhr:
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:45:19 +0200
>
> Currently creating unibyte strings with the C module API is rather
> convoluted: one has to create a list with the individual bytes and then
> call `unibyte-string', requiring lots of memory allocations. Given that
> creating a unibyte string is more fundamental than creating a multibyte
> string, I propose adding functions to create and extract unibyte strings
> that exactly mirror the existing support for multibyte strings.
Can you explain why you need to create unibyte strings, or describe a
use case where this would be required?
I don't have a concrete use case per se, but the API feels incomplete without this functionality, especially given that creation of multibyte strings is supported and uses unibyte strings under the hood.