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26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 12:45:45 +0200

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

>> Perhaps saying "(2 bytes)" will be more helpful?
>
> I really doubt that: Emacs users tend to think in terms of characters
> than in terms of bytes.

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.

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