Re: Towards a cleaner build: select.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 16:45:20 +0200
> 
> In xselect--encode-string:
> select.el:482:24:Warning: `string-make-unibyte' is an obsolete function (as of
>     26.1); use `encode-coding-string'.
> 
> It's this code:
> 
>          ((eq type 'C_STRING)
>             ;; If STR is unibyte (the normal case), use it; otherwise
>             ;; we assume some of the characters are eight-bit, and
>             ;; take their lower 8 bits.
>           (setq str (string-make-unibyte str)))
> 
> Stefan suggested, I think, that we should just use string-to-unibyte
> here.  Eli, do you agree?

Sorry, no, at least not yet.  I still cannot wrap my head around that
code, and Kenichi Handa didn't respond to my questions.  Please leave
this alone for now, it's still on my todo.