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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/gnus-decoded f041412 1/7: Decode group names in newsrc files as raw-text, not utf-8
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 08:45:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l4hzks9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2imsykp56.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:20:05 +0200")

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jun 21 2019, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> In scratch/gnus-decoded, the group name is the string "nnml:テスト". It
>> is written to newsrc with:
>>
>> (with-current-buffer buf
>>   (insert "nnml:テスト")
>>   (let ((coding-system-for-write 'raw-text))
>>     (save-buffer)))
>>
>> And read with:
>>
>> (set-buffer (nnheader-find-file-noselect newsrc-file))
>> (setq group (read (current-buffer))
>>       group (decode-coding-string
>> 	     (symbol-name group) 'raw-text))
>
> The coding rules for symbols and strings are quite different.  If you
> want read a symbol, you need to write a symbol.

Actually what I want is to read/write strings. The calls to `read' made
sense when group names were always symbols, but there isn't much point
to that now. I was leaving them on general principle -- smallest viable
change, etc -- but maybe I should just bite the bullet and switch to
buffer substrings.

Eric



      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-22 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20190621205533.D5EB520A01@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-06-21 22:17   ` [Emacs-diffs] scratch/gnus-decoded f041412 1/7: Decode group names in newsrc files as raw-text, not utf-8 Stefan Monnier
2019-06-21 22:55     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-06-22  8:20       ` Andreas Schwab
2019-06-22 15:45         ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]

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