From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19937.37639.583480.682350@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <86r57fsthk.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <20110531.091446.1495505136276593017.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <86vcwqol41.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306872867 21653 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2011 20:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 20:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: "Randal L. Schwartz" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 22:14:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [140.186.70.17] (helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRVKX-000204-SW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRVKK-00025s-DD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47306 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRVK0-000215-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRVJb-0004Ew-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:13:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f41.google.com ([209.85.161.41]:50782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRVJa-0004DN-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so4020535fxm.0 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xHs1Yf6r6YQXSFZ+s+ZkgJ+kpwT47VT3aCsHNG+pDdI=; b=LM+HCe0gIRPYAXNsCWVS6rGIa22Kc1fi/GcPLB7TubMDsf+APh58zVUnTeh6xSEs8K 4eFl+nKxT/ULrPwp9peuNqDiFTqziyLJWzA7+fU1aJ046CE//25/kVtojk7wpVx6Vwvd 9HzhrQSwc936Oxux1ctNTyXJ73fOkYWOLbt1g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qF/4XRDYQNJkU40BT8gV7qjTx2JjGZazAeReOTRjBzeKJ52lYT77f6Y2W42Oi36N4f A6w5FxnxYgroaf/B74Q4opYjbuDenclR845o0cDvhYN4xLiuR9AkuZz/PRYXL9LHZ7bR OObRBKTYA8OOVOgAirLjSNraYhjtlIaFFZW+I= Original-Received: by 10.223.54.219 with SMTP id r27mr441178fag.124.1306872801330; Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.93.208 with HTTP; Tue, 31 May 2011 13:13:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <86vcwqol41.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.41 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:139997 Archived-At: On Tuesday, May 31, 2011, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Harald" =3D=3D Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > > Harald> True, but given the octal escape sequences mentioned in the subje= ct I > Harald> thought he meant the string that is denoted "\\302\\247" in elisp= , > Harald> which is indeed ASCII. > > No, the string "\302\247" is not ASCII. =A0It's 8-bit-something-or-other. ASCII definitely *does* include the character \, and all the digits 0-9, in only 7 bits. --=20 -PJ