Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:33:21 +0200
> 
> If an overlong UTF-8 byte sequence representing '"' is processed
> transparently by Emacs, it will be reencoded into the original
> afterwards and depending on the next processing stage might trip up
> software afterwards.

Indeed.  But that's what is expected from an editor: not to change the
stuff the user didn't touch.

> Of course, it would have done equally so without Emacs (or GUILE) in
> the middle.

Right.

> The solution obviously is to use a coding scheme for recoding that
> does _not_ reproduce unencodable bytes.

An editor such as Emacs cannot do that, I think.