bug#23487: 25.0.93; Modules: add functionality to create and copy unibyte strings

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 18:06:41 +0000
>> Cc: 23487@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> I don't have a concrete use case per se, but the API feels incomplete 
>> without this functionality, especially given
>> that creation of multibyte strings is supported and uses unibyte strings 
>> under the hood.
>
> Unibyte strings are very rarely used in Emacs core, and for a good
> reason.  So I think we'd really want to see real-life use cases before
> we decide to support them in modules.

Is there any use-case here?  Otherwise, it sounds to me like Eli thinks
that this should be closed as wontfix?  Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas