From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
Cc: winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 02:47:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QQZmO-0007Eq-G8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcwuysgp.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (message from Michael Welsh Duggan on Sun, 29 May 2011 01:40:54 -0400)
> From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 01:40:54 -0400
> Cc: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
>
> As Leo says:
>
> (encode-coding-string "§" 'utf-8)
> "\302\247"
This is an illusion: what is produced are 2 bytes, but when Emacs
inserts that into the buffer where the results are displayed, the
bytes are represented as ASCII strings. Try writing the result to a
file (e.g., with write-region) and you will see that what ends up in
the file is simply the UTF-8 encoding of the character. This is not
what the OP wanted.
IOW, encode-coding-string produces the encoding specified by its 3rd
argument, not its ASCII representation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-29 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 0:27 converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 2:57 ` Leo
2011-05-29 5:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:35 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 20:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-05-29 6:58 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 19:15 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-29 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 3:48 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-30 22:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 7:14 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-05-31 17:06 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 20:13 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-30 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 21:06 ` Roland Winkler
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