Subject: Re: bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 14:06:37 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 12:45:45 +0200
> 
> But this is questionable, at least:
> 
> (with-temp-buffer (set-buffer-multibyte nil) (insert-file-contents "~/rms.jpg") (write-region (point-min) (point-max) "/tmp/a.jpg"))
> Wrote ‘/tmp/a.jpg’ (889 characters)
> 
> There are no characters in a JPEG file; it's all bytes.

Each byte is a character in this case, right?

Anyway, since you don't like this feature, it's clear that you can
come up with many examples where you don't like the result.  People
who do like it will most probably disagree.