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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding in
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer |
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Sun, 26 May 2019 05:37:51 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 17:11:00 -0400
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> But now I wonder, what can we do with this representation.
> I guess set-buffer-multibyte will convert it to the intended chars, but
> that bugs the question "why bother deciding into the unibyte buffer and
> call set-buffer-multibyte afterwards rather than do the reverse"?
> Anything else we can do with it?
I don't know. It isn't a usual thing to do, to be sure. But it isn't
non-sensical, either.