> It works correctly, provided the characters in that string can be
> expressed in the unibyte buffer.
But which characters can be expressed is poorly specified. E.g. Tell me
which chars can be expressed in a unibyte buffer in a BIG5 locale?
Mentioning the locale is somewhat of a red herring, since what controls
this conversion is (effectively) nonascii-insert-offset.
Mentioning BIG5 is a second red herring. You can't represent Chinese
in 8-bit characters, but that is not Emacs' fault.
Do you think that we need to document nonascii-insert-offset more
prominently? If so, where else should we talk about it?
> If people generally agree it would be better to signal an error,
> we could do that. However, that would cause trouble trying to use
> M-y to move past multibyte entries in the kill ring to reach the
> unibyte entry you really want.
When the insertion is a user-level operation, the elisp code should make
sure to manually do the encoding/decoding, using e.g. the default file
coding-system.
I don't understand -- could you be more specific?
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