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?
next prev parent 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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