Subject: Re: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:57:28 -0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> We make the echo area
> buffer unibyte when the message is generated with the current buffer
> being unibyte.

This made sense back in the 1990s when unibyte was commonly used for text. 
Nowadays, though, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the echo area multibyte? 
The echo area is intended for text, not for binary data.