# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 917217456 0
# Node ID 8b9782bae564c60277b20a985bd642ad73786353
# Parent  6b14770eb94492d9f4eec19817feaa65513f6f3d
Comment about unibyte.

diff -r 6b14770eb944 -r 8b9782bae564 src/emacs.c
--- a/src/emacs.c	Sun Jan 24 20:12:25 1999 +0000
+++ b/src/emacs.c	Sun Jan 24 22:37:36 1999 +0000
@@ -967,6 +967,12 @@
 	 buffers and strings.  We need to handle this before calling
 	 init_lread, init_editfns and other places that generate Lisp strings
 	 from text in the environment.  */
+      /* Actually this shouldn't be needed as of 20.4 in a generally
+	 unibyte environment.  As handa says, environment values
+	 aren't now decoded; also existing buffers are now made
+	 unibyte during startup if .emacs sets unibyte.  Tested with
+	 8-bit data in environment variables and /etc/passwd, setting
+	 unibyte and Latin-1 in .emacs. -- Dave Love */
       if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-unibyte", "--unibyte", 4, NULL, &skip_args)
 	  || argmatch (argv, argc, "-no-multibyte", "--no-multibyte", 4, NULL, &skip_args)
 	  || (getenv ("EMACS_UNIBYTE") && !inhibit_unibyte))