Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> My point was simply if you stay 100% within multibyte, it all works,
>> >> and if you stay 100% in unibyte it all works
>> 
>> > The former is true, the latter isn't, AFAIK.  ``Normal'' Emacs
>> > primitives and subroutines always do TRT with multibyte strings, while
>> > with unibyte you need to be careful which ones you call.
>> 
>> Care to give an example of what you're thinking about, where purely unibyte
>> strings and buffers are not properly handled?

> Are you talking about a unibyte Emacs session?  If so, that's not what
> I had in mind.  I'm talking about using unibyte strings in a multibyte
> session.

I'm not quite sure what is a "unibyte session", but I think "stay 100% in
unibyte" is fairly clear: only use unibyte buffers and strings in the
relevant code (while other unrelated buffers and strings may be multibyte).
So I think we're thinking about the same situation.


        Stefan