From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?4oCcUmF34oCd?= string literals for elisp Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:54:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfxd1g05.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4209edd83cfee7c84b2d75ebfcd38784fa21b23c.camel@crossproduct.net> <87v92ft9z6.fsf@db48x.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <87a6jotszy.fsf@db48x.net> <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30843"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, juri@linkov.net To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 07 09:17:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mYNeR-0007lp-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:17:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYNeQ-0006jJ-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 03:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYNJ1-0003qo-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYNIy-0002TM-5g; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:55:00 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2025 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYNIr-0008QZ-Tq; Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:54:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:16 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276481 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:16 -0400 > > > As a last resort, if you had buffers with content which were not > > associated with any files, or if the autosave was not recent enough to > > have recorded important changes, you can use the ‘etc/emacs-buffer.gdb’ > > script with GDB (the GNU Debugger) to retrieve them from a core > > dump–provided that a core dump was saved, and that the Emacs executable > > How exactly did you obtain that text? That ought to be an em-dash, > written in Texinfo source as `---'. The original text used '--', which produced en-dash instead. (Stefan fixed that since then.) > Normally Texinfo represents an em-dash in ASCII output with two > dashes, not just one. It would be `...from a core dump-–provided > that a core dump...' That has changed, since we nowadays by default use UTF-8 encoding in our Info manuals. With that, '---' produces the Unicode em-dash character, displayed as a wide dash, and '--' produces a Unicode en-dash character, displayed as somewhat more narrow dash (but still wider than the ASCII dash).