From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:01:35 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1030121075724.9650D-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301210045.h0L0jS812745@rum.cs.yale.edu>
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > unibyte sequence (hex): 81 81 C0 C0
> > result of conversion display in multbyte buffer
> > string-as-multibyte: 9E A1 81 C0 C0 \201À\300
> > string-make-multibyte: 9E A1 9E A1 81 C0 81 C0 \201\201ÀÀ
> > string-to-multibyte: 9E A1 9E A1 C0 C0 \201\201\300\300
> [...]
> 3 - when called with a `raw-text' coding-system, decode-coding-string
> returns a unibyte string
I might be missing something, but I think you are wrong: the sequence
"9E A1 9E A1 C0 C0" is _not_ a unibyte string. For example, "9E A1" is
the multibyte encoding of the 81 byte.
> I think avoiding string-FOO-multibyte and using decode-coding-string
> instead would make things a lot more clear.
FWIW, I never use string-*-multibyte because I could never remember what
exactly does each variant do.
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2003-01-18 0:48 ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28 Richard Stallman
2003-01-18 12:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-01-18 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-20 0:49 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 2:29 ` unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28] Kenichi Handa
2003-01-20 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-20 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-21 0:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-21 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-22 9:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-22 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-23 11:38 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-23 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-24 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-23 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-24 5:43 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-26 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-27 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 7:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-27 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-29 11:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 0:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-21 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-01-21 6:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 8:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 15:02 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-21 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-22 10:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-21 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-21 6:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-22 10:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-01-20 1:52 ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28 Kenichi Handa
2003-01-21 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-28 0:32 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-28 12:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-10 8:15 ` set-process-filter-multibyte and etc Kenichi Handa
2003-02-10 14:57 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-02-11 0:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-20 1:27 ` Tak Ota
2003-02-20 1:56 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-20 2:44 ` Tak Ota
2003-03-03 18:59 ` Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28 Richard Stallman
2003-01-21 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 12:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-29 0:05 ` Richard Stallman
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