Re: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables'

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:46:59PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I think we should make the whole _concept_ of "unibyte" deprecated...
> 
> At the user-level, yes that was pretty much my understanding as well, which
> is why the unibyte:t marker should be considered obsolete.
> 
> At the elisp level, unibyte strings and buffers are still very handy
> to manipulate undecoded data (such as when talking to an NNTP server).
> I don't see any reason why this should ever be deprecated.

I think the lisp/C level are a complete mess also, but it's probably too
painful and too much work to fix it.

-Miles
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