Re: address@hidden: [patch] url-hexify-string does not follow W3C spec]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> (if (or (multibyte-string-p string)
>>> (not unibyte-as-is-p))
>>> (encode-coding-string string 'utf-8 t)
>> 
>> Encoding a unibyte string doesn't make any sense (IMHO it should
>> signal an error, and indeed in my locally hacked Emacs it does ;-).

> It sounds to me like this would be a sensible setting, and we should
> have it before entering pretest: we would like to catch the cases
> where this happens.

This situation has been there for long (since Emacs 20).  I
don't want to touch this part before the release.  Emacs 23
is the good chance to clean this matter.

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Kenichi Handa
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