Re: [Gcl-devel] utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Kastrup writes:

 > string-as-unibyte and string-as-multibyte most certainly are available
 > for going from one to the other.  But the commands working on either
 > unibyte or multibyte strings are the same.

True.  Thanks for pointing that out.

 > Similar for buffers.  I have no idea whether this is a problem
 > vector for creating inconsistent multibyte content.  I could
 > imagine it to be,

And indeed it was.

 > but so could be user-created CCL programs for code conversion.

True, but few users ever create CCL programs.  It's something only a
specialist would do, so as far as I'm concerned that's not an
attractive nuisance the way *-as-unibyte are.  YMMV etc.