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From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Characters saved mismatch?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 11:15:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e30f6817-1cee-d4a1-2ff6-d4539f5a8f4a@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8WqmWVQR0t92uvq2uuoCzqFdRiRKB6WefCUXWbH8SWm-g@mail.gmail.com>



Il 07/05/2017 10:56, Yuri Khan ha scritto:
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Angelo Graziosi
> <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> wrote:
> 
>>    Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 characters)
>>
>> but
>>
>>    ls -l foo.text
>>    -rw-r--r-- 1 bingo bongo 10  7 mag 01.07 foo.text
>>
>> 10 bytes!
> 
> You are comparing a character count against a byte count. Well *of
> course* they are going to be different. The assumption “one character
> is encoded by one byte” has been false for quite a while now.
> 

Someone should explain the meaning of "Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 
characters)".

If it refers to the number of characters, my example contains 6 
characters: f-o-o-b-a-r and not 8.

As I wrote, in Windows Emacs uses DOS style, more precisely 'utf-8-dos'. 
That should mean 1 byte/ch and CR+LF for end line (RET). This mean that

foo RET
bar RET

should contain (3+2) * 2 = 10 bytes as, 'ls' shows..

Then, where does "Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 characters)" came 
from, on Windows?



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-07  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06 23:27 Characters saved mismatch? Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  1:06 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-07  2:53   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-07  8:06   ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  8:52     ` Stephen Berman
2017-05-07  9:02       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  8:56 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07  9:15   ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
2017-05-07  9:25     ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 10:50       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 12:41         ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 12:46     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-07 13:38       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 14:07         ` Stefan Monnier

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