Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:00:32 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The next question is what to do with unibyte strings, which are
> > currently widely used for pure-ASCII text.
> 
> You do the same, obviously (the representation wouldn't change for
> pure-ascii, of course).

OK, so we get rid of unibyte strings as well.

Next question: what happens to implementation of encoding?  It
currently produces raw bytes.  Should it produce eight-bit characters
instead?  If not, who or what will convert raw bytes into eight-bit
characters, when they are inserted into a buffer or string, and who or
what will convert them back when they are written to a file or sent to
a process?