Re: Invalid read syntax for compiled bool vector

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think that hexadecimal notation would be quite more compact, without
> > a loss of generality and (probably unimportant) readability.
> 
> If you use hexadecimal notation then the reader will force the string to
> multibyte, with octal notation it is forced to unibyte.  The process of
> converting a unibyte string to multibyte will change characters in the
> range 0x80..0x9f.  Maybe the bool vector reader should just force the
> string back to unibyte.

Ah, uh, ok.  Just forget it, then.  Looks like I did not know what I
was talking about.  Not that this happens too rarely...

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