From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:55:08 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5334740C.4050804@cs.ucla.edu> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <53332B35.8050109@cs.ucla.edu> <83wqfgybfm.fsf@gnu.org> <53334BBC.4060405@cs.ucla.edu> <83ioqzy1vb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395946534 26536 80.91.229.3 (27 Mar 2014 18:55:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 27 19:55:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTFSj-0007kI-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:55:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTFSi-0001u8-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:55:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57969) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTFSW-0001ta-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTFSP-0002z6-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55229) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTFSH-0002vR-FD; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46E239E8008; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:55:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LwwP422uJlLu; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5900339E8019; Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:55:08 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83ioqzy1vb.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171044 Archived-At: On 03/27/2014 10:42 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> How could char-equal know whether 224 is a raw byte or the Latin-1 >> >character '=C3=A0'? > The same way it "knows" today. So (char-equal ?x ?=C3=A0) would signal an error in a unibyte buffer (bec= ause=20 ?=C3=A0 < 256), and (char-equal ?x ?=CE=B1) would return nil (because 255= < ?=CE=B1)?=20 That doesn't sound right, but most likely I'm misunderstanding the propos= al.