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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers |
| Date: | Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:27:49 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Again, I disagree. Unibyte is a design mistake, and unnecessary.
> Then what do you call a buffer whose "text" is encoded?
I think they call it "a buffer" ;-)
More seriously, IIUC they represent bytes 0..7F as ASCII (like we do)
and 80..FF as latin-1-ish chars (i.e. occupying two bytes in the
internal representation, IIRC).
Stefan
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