Re: [Unicode-2] `read' always returns multibyte symbol

[Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>]

In article <b4m1war6ca5.fsf@jpl.org>, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>>>>>> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> > BTW, I found another problem with Emacs 21 (Gnus still supports
> > Emacs 21, IIUC).  So, I'll go on looking into it further.

> I realized a network process that is created by
> `open-network-stream' in Emacs 21 breaks encoded non-ASCII group
> names if the process buffer is in the multibyte mode even if the
> process coding system is binary.  It behaves as if
> `toggle-enable-multibyte-characters' modifies binary data when
> turning on the multibyteness of a buffer.

If "modifies" means that 8-bit bytes are converted to
multibyte characters as what string-as-multibyte does, it's
an expected behaviour.

I long ago proposed a facility that turns on the
multibyteness of a buffer while converting 8-bit bytes to
multibyte characters as what string-to-multibyte does, but
not accepted.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp