From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:32:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg0msfxr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAM-tV-9F6Tt=wbnxwkyAjDc2-tdQhgipmY8+BCOSdrYk+BfvoA@mail.gmail.com
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 22:22, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> >> "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210"
>
>> >> "nnml:ã\203\206ã\202¹ã\203\210"
>
>> > Are you maybe looking for decode-coding-string?
>
>> No, unfortunately -- that would make everything much easier. Eventually
>> the idea will be to decode the strings into plain utf-8-emacs, but for
>> now I'm stuck keeping them in this weird half-state. I literally need a
>> conversion between the two versions above.
>
> Oh, I missed which two string you meant. It seems that evaluating the
> 1st string with C-x C-e prints the second string in the *Messages*
> buffer (I initially thought they were the same string), but
> printing/inserting it doesn't work the same. The message code prints
> one character at a time, and indeed, inserting one character at a time
> in lisp works too:
>
> (let ((s "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210"))
> (with-temp-buffer
> (mapc #'insert s)
> (buffer-string)))
>
> The following shorter expression also seem to work:
>
> (apply #'string (string-to-list "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210"))
>
> And apply #'unibyte-string goes back again:
>
> (let* ((s1 "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210")
> (s2 (apply #'string (string-to-list s1))))
> (apply #'unibyte-string (string-to-list s2)))
>
> I can't say I completely understand why all this works though.
Well that is weird and I would never have discovered it on my own --
thank you! I'm going to try to put together a patch using this now.
Thanks again,
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-07 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-05 20:47 Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-06 1:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-06 2:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-06 3:56 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-07 2:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-04-07 4:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-07 7:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-07 17:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-07 11:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-07 12:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-07 12:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-06 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-07 2:30 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-06 8:26 ` Andreas Schwab
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