GNU bug report logs - #16048
24.3.50; String compare surprise

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Message #34 received at 16048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 16048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:38:51 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  16048 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:51:41 +0100
> 
> > IIUC this is dbus code, so it likely handles marshalled data, which
> > often has to manage bytes rather than chars, so a unibyte string might
> > be the right thing.
> 
> Indeed. My ert test case is
> 
>   (should
>    (string-equal
>     (dbus-unescape-from-identifier
>      (dbus-escape-as-identifier "0123abc_xyz\x01\xff"))
>     "0123abc_xyz\x01\xff"))

FWIW, I don't see anything in this snippet that requires unibyte
strings.

Just to make it clear: Emacs is perfectly capable of holding raw bytes
in multibyte strings.  That's why we have the eight-bit charset.

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