Re: Loading souce Elisp faster

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:19:57 -0500
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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>     Since Emacs now uses utf-8 based encoding internally, conversion from
>     utf-8 is a no-op (except for the EOL conversion).
> 
> I don't think that is true.  The Emacs internal encoding is not
> identical to Unicode

It is identical for all the characters that are valid Unicode
codepoints.

> and conversion to or from utf-8 is not a no-op.

See decode_coding_utf_8.