Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> One problem with that is that quite often Emacs' choice of a coding
>>>> system for a buffer is the result of heuristics rather than dependable
>>>> information.  Not making a fuzz might often be simplest.
>>>
>>> If you try to save a buffer Emacs will check whether all characters are
>>> encodable, and complain (and ask) if they aren't.
>>
>> Sure, but a raw byte is trivially encodable since it is no character.
>
> This is a contradiction.  It isn't a character, so it isn't encodable.

The character representation of "raw byte" is trivially encodable since
it represents a single byte in any encoding.

-- 
David Kastrup