Re: UUIDGEN in lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:30:10 +0100
> 
> Binding coding-system-for-read is definitely necessary.  I'm reading
> random bytes, and I don't want Emacs to convert any of the values.  If
> I don't bind it, `uuid-random' can return a list like:
> 
> (159 92 2210 119 150 148 2275 2265 2290 2220 2240 62 84 2235 150 18)
> 
> which is wrong, since it's not a list of bytes.

Do you have an actual example where that happens?

> Uhm, I don't think there's anything strange about having to bind
> coding-system-for-read to binary -- I _am_ reading binary data, after
> all.

raw-text is probably a better candidate.