Re: (aset UNIBYTE-STRING MULTIBYTE-CHAR)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:50 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Why should (make-string 1 ?a) produce a unibyte string?  Why can't it
> > produce a multibyte string instead?
> >
> > More generally, how about if we make sure _all_ string-producing
> > primitives return multibyte strings, and unibyte strings can only be
> > produced by a few specialized ones which have "-unibyte-" in their
> > name?
> 
> Why?

Because unibyte strings are evil, and shouldn't be needed in Emacs,
except in a few very specialized situations.

> That doesn't seem to help with the issue being discussed (Stefan's
> solution seems pretty good though)....

The fact that (make-string 1 ?a) produces a unibyte string was
mentioned as one problem.