Re: Automatic (e)tags generation and incremental updates

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: tom@tromey.com, john@yates-sheets.org, philipk@posteo.net,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 05:57:21 +0200
> 
> > We don't recode characters when they are valid UTF-8 sequences, but
> > you forget the raw bytes: they are converted from internal multibyte
> > representation to single bytes, and that requires walking the buffer
> > one character at a time.
> > 
> > IOW, utf-8-emacs is the same as utf-8 for this purpose.
> 
> So utf-8-emacs is not the same as "internal multibyte representation"?

No, not according to my reading of the code.  (The telltale sign is
that "C-h C" tells you utf-8-emacs has the usual 3 EOL variants,
something that makes no sense for the internal representation.)  If
something like "dump internal representation" coding-system is needed,
we will have to add it, I think.