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

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

In article <b4my7czxeze.fsf@jpl.org>, Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> Oops.  I misunderstood that the reason why Emacs 22 and 23 don't
> break 8-bit data while they are being fed into a multibyte buffer
> from a network process of which the process coding system is
> binary.  So, maybe the best ways for the present are still to
> use a unibyte buffer for unibyte data and to use a multibyte
> buffer for multibyte data.  And use a string, not a buffer, to
> encode and decode data if the multibyteness of data will change,
> like:

> (insert (prog1
> 	    (decode-coding-string (buffer-string) 'coding)
> 	  (erase-buffer)
> 	  (set-buffer-multibyte t)))

The best is to decide buffer's multibyteness just after it
is created, and don't change the multibyteness later.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp