> There is a big difference between unibyte strings and encoded unibyte > strings.
What is that difference? You can represent one of Emacs' supported Latin alphabets in (unencoded) unibyte strings, and Emacs will automatically convert to and from multibyte. However, if you store encoded text in unibyte strings, you are responsible for decoding and encoding when necessary. You have to keep track, everywhere, of whether the data is encoded or not. We implemented the ability to do encoding manually because sometimes it is necessary to decode parts of a file in different ways (e.g., mailboxes). _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug