Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:29:51 +0900 (JST)
> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> 
> > AFAIK, raw-text does decode the text in the sense that
> > 8-bit characters which have their 8th bit set are decoded
> > into the eight-bit-* charsets.
> 
> Yes, but that is only in the case that you read a file into
> a multibyte buffer by raw-text.  This conversion from raw
> byte sequence to multibyte form is what done by
> string-to-multibyte which I wrote in the previous mail.
> 
> On process reading, if raw-text is used, the process output
> is at first read as a unibyte string, the string is coverted
> to multibyte by string-as-mulitbyte (not by not-yet-existing
> string-to-multibyte), then inserted in a multibyte buffer.

Sorry, I don't think I understand the difference.  What will we have
in the buffer after process output is converted as you describe in the
last paragraph above?