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24.3.50; Multibyte filenames and directory-files in unibyte buffer

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, politza <at> hochschule-trier.de
Subject: bug#15426: 24.3.50; Multibyte filenames and directory-files in unibyte buffer
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 22:17:14 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Andreas Politz <politza <at> hochschule-trier.de>,  15426 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:15:44 -0400
> 
> > Don't do that: inserting multibyte strings into a unibyte buffer
> > changes the representation of the characters in the string, so you get
> > a unibyte string.  Unibyte buffers should only ever hold encoded text
> > or binary data.
> 
> AFAICT his recipe does not involve inserting any string anywhere.

Perhaps the recipe should be described in more detail, then.

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