Re: Crashes with non-default language environments

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> What's really wanted here, is something like
>>> vector-to-raw-string-dont-you-dare-do-any-encoding, right?
>>> [As the bytecode engine wants raw bytes with the same numbers, which
>>> just happened to be inside a string]
>> 
>> The problem is that "no encoding" means different things to
>> different people.

> Ok, perhaps

> `vector-to-raw-string-whose-bytes-in-memory-should-have-exactly-the-same-values-as-the-elements-of-this-vector'.

Sounds good.  The function name may want to be a bit more specific about
what happens w.r.t to eight-bit-control and eight-bit-graphic chars as
compared to latin-1 chars (in Emacs-22, the former had values between
128 and 255 and the latter had much larger values whereas with the
unicode switch the reverse is true IIUC).


        Stefan