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[PATCH] bindat: Improve str, strz documentation

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Message #25 received at 55815-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>
Cc: 55815-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#55815: [PATCH] bindat: Improve str, strz documentation
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:30:34 +0300

> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 00:16:51 -0400
> Cc: 55815 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Richard Hansen <rhansen <at> rhansen.org>
> 
> On 6/7/22 12:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Right now all three of those are unibyte, but in a future patch I 
> >> plan on changing the first to accept unibyte-convertible multibyte 
> >> input strings.
> > 
> > Not sure I understand: what do you mean by "unibyte-convertible 
> > multibyte input strings", and how do they differ from the other kinds?
> 
> I mean multibyte strings that do not contain characters that will cause string-to-unibyte to signal an error.

IOW, multibyte strings that contain only ASCII characters and
characters of the 'eight-bit' charset.

> > In any case, you say "unibyte input string" too many time, and that's 
> > unnecessary.
> 
> Done, see attached.

Thanks, installed.

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