From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 23 character code space
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1L5Bwf-0006ku-Ci@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uljv7gm4j.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:13:48 +0200)
In article <uljv7gm4j.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > No. A coding-system is a mapping between a sequence of
> > characters and a sequence of bytes.
> Then how to understand this sentence you wrote:
> Emacs decodes a specific code point of a specific character set to
> an Emacs character.
Here, "decode" doesn't mean "decode by a coding system".
> Under what circumstances does this decoding happen? The only type of
> ``decoding'' I knew about until now was by decode-coding-region and
> friends, which use a coding-system to decode a byte sequence into
> Emacs characters.
For instance, to get a glyph-code of X font, we decode a
character by a charset with that the font encodes glyph
codes.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-01 14:20 Emacs 23 character code space Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-01 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-03 1:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-03 12:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-03 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 7:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-04 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-05 12:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-05 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-26 1:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-26 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-26 4:24 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2008-11-26 4:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-26 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-26 22:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-27 1:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-27 1:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-26 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-27 1:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-29 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-02 5:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-28 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-02 5:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-02 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-29 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-22 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-23 4:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-23 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-26 1:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-23 8:29 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-11-23 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-23 11:55 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-11-24 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-26 1:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-11-22 17:03 ` New function: what-file-line, used when writing gdb script richardeng
2008-11-07 7:21 ` Emacs 23 character code space Kenichi Handa
2008-11-07 10:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-07 11:52 ` Kenichi Handa
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