From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Typing raw bytes Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:22:17 +0900 Message-ID: <87y5fnmod2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83hambpqds.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358724239 25275 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2013 23:23:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 00:24:17 2013 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 1Tx4FL-0004kY-ED for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:24:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx4F4-0005IV-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx4F1-0005IQ-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx4F0-0007Ky-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx4F0-0007Kt-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:23:54 -0500 Original-Received: from 253.240.accsnet.ne.jp ([202.220.240.253]:63900 helo=mongkok) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tx4Ez-0003EY-Gz; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:23:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83hambpqds.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:10:23 +0200) 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:156519 Archived-At: In article <83hambpqds.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > Suppose I want to create a file whose contents is a series of certain > bytes. How would I go about that? > I tried "M-x hexl-mode RET" in a new buffer, but it evidently doesn't > let you insert bytes, only edit existing bytes. > Next I tried "C-x RET f raw-text RET" in a new buffer followed by > "C-q NNN" etc., but the data written thereafter to disk is more bytes > than I typed, because, I guess, "C-q NNN" inserts windows-1255 > characters (this is on Windows, where keyboard-coding-system is > windows-1255-unix), and what winds up in the file is their UTF-8 > encoding. Please use C-q in a unibyte buffer. For instance, M-x find-file-literally RET _FILE_NAME_ RET C-q 3 7 7 RET C-x C-s or C-x b _NEW_BUFFER_NAME_ ERT M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET C-q 3 7 7 RET C-x C-s --- Kenichi Handa handa@gnu.org