Re: how to calculate the size of string in bytes?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It seems somewhat wasteful to encode msg (to find its length) just
> to let process-send-string encode again -- perhaps there's a better
> idiom around for that.

Yup: communicate with the process using bytes rather than chars!

I.e. set the process's coding system to binary.

Then you just need to call (encode-coding-string msg coding-system) once
to get the bytes and you send them as is: they won't be re-encoded.


        Stefan