From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:05:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4d9z2zy.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19937.59726.325082.1568@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (Roland Winkler's message of "Sun, 29 May 2011 01:35:58 -0500")
"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sun May 29 2011 Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>> As Leo says:
>>
>> (encode-coding-string "§" 'utf-8)
>> "\302\247"
>> (decode-coding-string "\302\247" 'utf-8)
>> "§"
>
> The decoding seems to work fine this way, but not the encoding.
> If I start out with the 8-character ascii string "\302\247" the
> following does not give me back this 8-character string:
>
> (with-temp-file "~/foo.txt"
> (insert (encode-coding-string
> (decode-coding-string "\302\247" 'utf-8) 'utf-8)))
>
> This will ask me for the coding system I want, suggesting the
> default 'raw-text. Then I end up with a file that has only two
> bytes, instead of the eight bytes I want.
(with-temp-file "~/foo.txt"
(insert (substring (prin1-to-string
(encode-coding-string
(decode-coding-string "\302\247" 'utf-8)'utf-8))
1 -1)))
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-29 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 0:27 converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 2:57 ` Leo
2011-05-29 5:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:35 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 20:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2011-05-29 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 6:58 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 19:15 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-29 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 3:48 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-30 22:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 7:14 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-05-31 17:06 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 20:13 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-30 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 21:06 ` Roland Winkler
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