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Re: Dynamic loading progress


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:17:03 -0700
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On 10/23/2015 12:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>,
>>  Tom Tromey <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
>>  Emacs development discussions <address@hidden>
>> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:52:58 -0700
>>
>>>     * expose fast read-only string access (not sure how do-able this is
>>>     considering the encoding problem)
>>>
>>>
>>> If the internal Emacs encoding is not defined, then we probably
>>> shouldn't expose it to modules. What should modules do with such string
>>> access? They could only treat the contents as opaque byte arrays.
>>
>> Agreed, although there may be a reasonable case for an API that provides
>> direct access to strings that happen to be ASCII (or UTF-8) and that
>> runs a conversion otherwise, all transparently.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here.  First, the internal representation is a
> superset of UTF-8, so if we can provide direct access to UTF-8, why
> not let modules access the internal representation?


You're right. There are few downsides to providing direct access
provided we document that strings are usually, but not always, strict UTF-8.


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