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25.0.95; Deprecate string-to/as-unibyte/multibyte

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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.95; Deprecate string-to/as-unibyte/multibyte
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:48:17 +0800

As discussed in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/204621:

,----[ Stefan Monnier ]
| The correct way to use them is to not use them and use
| encode/decode-coding-string instead.
`----

,----[ Eli Zaretskii ]
| Don't use them, period. They are remnants from the era long gone,
| before Emacs used Unicode and UTF-8 as the basis for its internal
| representation of characters. Nowadays the only place where such
| conversions are sometimes needed are on the C level, deep within Emacs
| internals. Applications should never use them.
`----

Leo

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