Re: string-bytes and coding systems

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Hmm, maybe it will be bindat.el after all! Or I'll just keep the current
>> in-buffer string-bytes approach and wait for something to explode.
>
> Basically, as long as the data is truly utf-8, string-bytes should give
> you the correct answer.  The differences should only occur on characters
> which are outside of utf-8 proper (used to represent invalid utf-8 data).

Sounds close enough for me.