From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:17:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnpxbupx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2ftqujnx8.fsf@linux-m68k.org
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> Symbol names can be unibyte and multibyte. Make sure to get that right.
> If you see ã instead of \343 then the symbol has a unibyte name.
I will meditate on this for a bit.
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Apr 06 2019, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
>> (with-temp-buffer
>> (set-buffer-multibyte t)
>> (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text))
>> (insert-file-contents "active")
>> (goto-char (point-min))
>> (symbol-name (read (current-buffer)))))
>>
>> I'm trying to turn that into something that looks like
>> "nnml:ã\203\206ã\202¹ã\203\210"
>
> (decode-coding-string (symbol-name (read "nnml:\343\203\206\343\202\271\343\203\210")) 'latin-1)
That did it! What a relief. I'm not sure why 'latin-1 in particular, but
that aligns all the strings correctly. I'll try to figure that out.
Huge thanks to you and Noam!
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-07 17:17 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
2019-04-07 4:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-04-07 7:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-07 17:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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