Re: [Unicode-2] `read' always returns multibyte symbol

[Stefan Monnier]

> That is because `read' decides the name is unibyte or multibyte by
> whether the name is a valid multibyte sequence or not.

Yuck.

> The bug to fix is that the following code also returns t in
> emacs-unicode-2.

> < --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> < (let ((string (encode-coding-string "local.テスト" 'utf-8)))
> <   (with-temp-buffer
> <     (set-buffer-multibyte nil)
> <     (insert string)
> <     (goto-char (point-min))
> <     (multibyte-string-p (symbol-name (read (current-buffer))))))
> < --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Yes, that's a clear bug.


        Stefan