Re: One example of code I can't understand

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:51:08 +0900
> 
> In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >     Why do we need to cater to unibyte operation in Emacs 23?
> > 1. Unibyte buffers may be needed for certain internal operations.  I
> > am not sure -- we need to ask Handa.
> 
> Currently, we are using unibyte buffers for various internal
> operations (e.g rmail, tar-mode, jka-compr, ...).

The code in question decides how to encode portions of a mail buffer
for sending an email message.  I doubt that the above uses of unibyte
buffers can be ever exposed to this code, since for that they would
need to be parts of an email message being composed.