Re: Replacement for string-as-unibyte-function

[Stefan Monnier]

> Am handling a message passed in from an external process
> (its passed in chunks).
>
> The header of the message specifies its length, in bytes.
> Some of the characters may be unicode.   Am using
> buffer-substring-no-properties to later extract the message.
> To get its length write, each byte has to be a character in the buffer.

So make sure the buffer in which the process writes is unibyte with

    (set-buffer-multibyte nil)

and make sure Emacs doesn't try to decode the process's output:

    (set-process-coding-system <proc> 'binary)

(which you can also set directly when you launch the process, but how
you do it depends on the function you use to create the process).


        Stefan