From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-cc-mode@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `decode-coding-string' question
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:56:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85r70x5gvf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607071905.04387.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (Paul Pogonyshev's message of "Fri, 7 Jul 2006 19:05:04 +0300")
Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > To know what character is encoded by this C sequence, I first translate
>> > strings "\xc2" and "\xa9" to the appropriate (undecoded!) characters.
>> > The resulting string of length 2 is encoded in UTF-8 and I decode it
>> > to receive the copyright character or whatever.
>>
>> Why not use `(decode-coding-string "\xc2\xa9" 'utf-8)' right away? It
>> gives me the right character directly.
>
> Because you underquoted the string. It is actually `(decode-coding-string
> "\\xc2\\xa9" 'utf-8)' and does nothing...
Because you overquoted the string...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-03 21:35 `decode-coding-string' question Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-04 0:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-07-04 3:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-04 17:29 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 15:31 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-05 0:55 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-07-05 16:11 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-05 16:34 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-07-05 16:50 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-06 1:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-07-06 15:52 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-06 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-06 20:34 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-07 9:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 16:05 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-07 19:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-07-07 22:54 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-07-08 8:18 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-04 12:55 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-04 13:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-04 13:23 ` Johan Bockgård
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