Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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    > Assume that any operation which decodes text _for a user to see_
    > will specify flexible decoding.

    That means almost all of them, more-or-less.  So it goes against what
    AFAIU Mark had in mind with "struct UTF-8".

I don't think so.  I think he is talking about operations OTHER THAN
those that decode text to put it in a buffer and show it to a user.

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