From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing Gnus, and string encoding question Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:17:46 -0700 Message-ID: <87pnpxbupx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87d0m0qivv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87zhp3swit.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wok6bgls.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="78604"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 07 19:18:35 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBRD-000KM2-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:18:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBRC-0004xv-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBQb-0004xd-1x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBQZ-0005RJ-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41192 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBQZ-0005Oz-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 13:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hDBQV-000JbH-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2019 19:17:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:V3Z2B5/GXB0scat0jMtL3vDw3XM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235074 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab 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 writes: > On Apr 06 2019, Eric Abrahamsen 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