Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> One problem with that is that quite often Emacs' choice of a coding
>>> system for a buffer is the result of heuristics rather than dependable
>>> information.  Not making a fuzz might often be simplest.
>>
>> If you try to save a buffer Emacs will check whether all characters are
>> encodable, and complain (and ask) if they aren't.
>
> Sure, but a raw byte is trivially encodable since it is no character.

This is a contradiction.  It isn't a character, so it isn't encodable.

Andreas.

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