Re: eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode

[Stefan Monnier]

>     No, as a matter of fact I don't see why in a utf-8 environment,
>     it makes any sense to have a function that turns a multibyte string
>     into a unibyte string encoded in latin-1 (without even complaining when
>     it encounters other characters).

> There are programs that need to do explicit encoding.  This will
> always be necessary.

This explanation does not really help me, because I do not know what
you mean by "explicit encoding" and more specifically, I do not see why
the current definition of string-make-unibyte is useful for doing
"explicit encoding".


        Stefan