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Re: `write-region' writes different bytes than passed to it?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: `write-region' writes different bytes than passed to it?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:37:42 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:05:25 -0500
> 
> >> > 1. Signal an error whenever Emacs attempts to encode a unibyte string
> >> > and the encoding isn't "raw-text" or "no-conversion"
> >> Sounds good to me.
> > I'm objected to such a change.
> 
> I would too because of the breakage it can/will introduce.
> But I still think it's a good idea ;-)
> [ Lots of good ideas can't be applied, sadly.  ]

Yes, in a better world, a better deity would be well advised to make
raw bytes unnecessary and non-existent.



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