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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 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: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:09:35 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Please note that I wasn't talking about inserting raw bytes, whether
> they come from unibyte or multibyte buffers, I was talking about
> inserting multibyte text that represents human-readable characters.

OK, then we're in violent agreement there.  I was simply pointing out
that we can't change insertion of multibyte text in the simple way you
seemed to be suggesting (i.e., just insert the bytes in the multibyte
string, because a multibyte raw character is represented by several
bytes (is it two or three? I forget)).

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