[mew-int 2493] Re: A patch: make-string in emacs 23

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> > Sorry for keep waiting for a long time. After long discussion, Emacs
> > 23 has come back to the original aset.
> > 
> > I think Mew can now work on Emacs 23 without any modification.
> 
> They didn't fix it right: If a unibyte string contains a non-ASCII
> character (easy; any latin-1 character will do) then aset'ing a
> character >= 256 on the string will fail. I have tried to reopen a
> discussion of this on the emacs-devel list; we will see what the
> responses are.

You are right. Handa-san fixed Emacs so that we can aset ASCII strings
with non-ASCII characters.

I'm now sure why Mew tries to aset non-ASCII strings with non-ASCII
characters. Would you explain the situation?

--Kazu