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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte b
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer |
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Mon, 27 May 2019 19:42:12 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 08:24:46 -0400
>
> > (string-as-unibyte STRING)
> >
> > This function is obsolete since 26.1;
> > use `encode-coding-string'.
> > Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.3.
> > This function does not change global state, including the match data.
> >
> > Having trawled through the elisp manual, for the life of me itʼs not
> > clear which coding system I should use. 'raw-text'? 'us-ascii'?
> > Something Else?
>
> The coding that most closely corresponds to what string-as-unibyte does
> is `emacs-internal`.
Why "most closely"? Maybe I'm missing something, but I think it
corresponds exactly. (I actually prefer using utf-8-emacs-unix, since
emacs-internal is an alias, and deceptively doesn't mention its EOL
conversion.)
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, (continued)
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/27
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/27
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/28
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Robert Pluim, 2019/05/28
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/28
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Stefan Monnier, 2019/05/28
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/28
- Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27
Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer,
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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27