Re: string-bytes and coding systems

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> When this text gets written to file it will also be encoded as
>>> utf-8, ergo testing string lengths with `string-bytes' is going to
>>> always produce the right results in the final file.
>> I suggest to use filepos-to-bufferpos to find where to break text into
>> lines.
>
> BTW, filepos-to-bufferpos uses string-bytes (or equivalent data, with
> the same caveat for raw bytes) for utf-8 buffers ;-)

Hmm, maybe it will be bindat.el after all! Or I'll just keep the current
in-buffer string-bytes approach and wait for something to explode.