From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Cc: 53236@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53236: 26.1; encode-coding-string does not encode the string as expected
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:55:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rvi3ixp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735lra07e.fsf@metalevel.at> (message from Markus Triska on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:45:57 +0100)
> From: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:45:57 +0100
>
> Correspondingly, I expect (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) to yield
> a string equivalent to "\xC2\x80", but that seems not to be the case. I get:
>
> (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) --> "\200"
>
> And therefore, unexpectedly:
>
> (string= (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) "\xC2\x80") --> nil
"\200" is a unibyte string, and encoding unibyte strings returns those
strings without changing them.
This is not a bug, just a dark corner of encoding/decoding stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-14 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-13 19:45 bug#53236: 26.1; encode-coding-string does not encode the string as expected Markus Triska
2022-01-13 20:23 ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-14 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-14 10:00 ` Andreas Schwab
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