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24.1; string-make-unibyte instead of string-as-unibyte

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 12925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ethan.glasser.camp <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#12925: 24.1; string-make-unibyte instead of string-as-unibyte
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:03:53 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,  12925 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   ethan.glasser.camp <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 09:45:07 -0400
> 
> > Why not make both methods do the same: insert the bytes of the
> > multibyte text into the unibyte buffer?
> 
> AFAIK it's rather unusual to need to insert a text that's multibyte into
> a buffer that's unibyte.

Most possibly, people don't know the text is multibyte.  Or don't
care.

> And in those cases, the right behavior is not always the same
> (sometimes it should covert using something like
> locale-coding-system, sometimes it should preserve the actual
> byte-sequence used internally, sometimes it should signal an error,
> ...).

What I mean is: if we think the current behavior is broken, then what
I suggest is at least less broken (and sometimes might just be TRT).
At the very least what I suggest is reversible, whereas neither the
current behavior nor what you suggest is.

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