Re: setenv -> locale-coding-system cannot handle ASCII?!

[Stefan Monnier]

>   (if (multibyte-string-p variable)
>       (setq variable (encode-coding-string variable locale-coding-system)))
> 
> multibyte-string-p is mandatory because encode-coding-string
> will change the byte-sequence of `variable' even if it is
> unibyte.
> Ex. (encode-coding-string "\201\300" 'iso-latin-1) => "\300"

I find this behavior annoying because it makes the emacs-mule
encoding appear in a situation where it is not mentioned.
I wish that

    (encode-coding-string "\201\300" 'iso-latin-1)
and
    (encode-coding-string (string-to-multibyte "\201\300") 'iso-latin-1)

returned the same value.


        Stefan