Comment about unibyte.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 54e7de1a86a..33d5ae290c7 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -967,6 +967,12 @@ the Bugs section of the Emacs manual or the file BUGS.\n", argv[0]);
          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))