Re: UDP/DNS in Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> > Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
> > Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:55:35 +0200
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Decode the data with raw-text-unix, and you should be fine.
> > >
> > > If that doesn't help, please tell the details.
> > 
> > I had just forgotten how to do all that stuff.  After getting a
> > unibyte buffer for dealing with binary data, it all just works.
> 
> IMHO, using unibyte buffers is asking for trouble.  It's the main
> reason for those \201 beauties popping up in user buffers.  Emacs 21
> doesn't need that anymore (although they are still supported).

And I disagree (and I think RMS partly disagrees as well).
When dealing with bytes rather than chars, using unibyte buffers
is the right thing to do.
It's the use of bytes in multibyte buffers that creates the problems
where \201 can occur.


        Stefan