From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:14:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9zgarvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87wq8pwjen.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837g0ptnlj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx3tmi3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834mvttgsf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> <87d2a54t1m.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <83lhotme1e.fsf@gnu.org> <871tql17uw.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <838uktm9gw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412691551 10354 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2014 14:19:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii , stephen@xemacs.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 16:19:03 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 1XbVbS-0000qq-Pa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVbS-0008QY-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVXq-0003M3-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVXp-0001aI-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVXp-0001aC-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:15:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47910 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbVXh-0007sp-52; Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 97127E0545; Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:14:50 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:04:52 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:175069 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > For > >> example, the ASCII quote (") can be represented as the single byte 0x22, > >> the two byte sequence 0xC0 0xA2, etc. > > What does Emacs do now with a file that contains these "overlong" > sequences? UTF-8 is defined as not containing "overlong" sequences, so Emacs decodes them into two raw-byte indicating characters, one indicating 0xC0, one indicating 0xA2. When encoding, it reassembles them into 0xC0 0xA2. -- David Kastrup