Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Miles Bader]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:04:37PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> And, if one wants to insert a result of encode-coding-string
> in a multibyte buffer (perhaps for some post-processing),
> what he should do?  If we have string-to-multibyte, we can
> do this:
>    (insert (string-to-multibyte
>              (encode-coding-string MULTIBYTE-STRING CODING)))
> If we don't have it, and provided that decode-coding-string
> always returns a multibyte string, we must do:
>    (insert (decode-coding-string
>              (encode-coding-string MULTIBYTE-STRING CODING) 'raw-text-unix))
> Isn't it very funny?

Actually I find the second variant much _more_ clear, as it makes it very
obvious what's happening.

-Miles
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