> You can represent one of Emacs' supported Latin alphabets in
> (unencoded) unibyte strings, and Emacs will automatically convert to
> and from multibyte.
And this use was very convenient for Emacs-20 where we wanted to keep some
backward compatibility with code that was not MULE-aware.
But nowadays any code which relies on this is simply broken, AFAIC, because
it'll only work in environments using a iso-8859 encoding (more or less) and
will thus be unusable with in asian environments or in utf-8 (which is very
quickly taking over the iso-8859 world).
> 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.
It's pretty easy to keep track of it: unibyte == encoded, multibyte
== decoded.
Stefan
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