From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: base64-encode-string confusion Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19e566510808260417vd49715cv18acfbd78620f317@mail.gmail.com> <19e566510808260628w12716ba3k7f51a6903743bba9@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219759597 4172 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2008 14:06:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:06:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs- devel To: =?utf-8?Q?=C4=B0smail_D=C3=B6nmez?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 26 16:07:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXzCM-0003KR-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:07:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXzBN-0006GW-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXyvK-0004WP-PX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXyvK-0004Vu-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55635 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXyvJ-0004VZ-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:58663) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXyvJ-0005U7-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:29 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAKums0jO+IDK/2dsb2JhbACBZbZZgWuBCg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,270,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="25955869" Original-Received: from 206-248-128-202.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.128.202]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 26 Aug 2008 09:49:22 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D6BC4B479B; Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:18 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <19e566510808260628w12716ba3k7f51a6903743bba9@mail.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C4=B0smail_D=C3=B6nmez=22's?= message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:28:32 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102986 Archived-At: > So here I guess multibyte != non-ascii ? The actual problem I am > facing is base64-encode-string doesn't support non-ascii characters, base64 is a way to encode a *byte sequence* in a way that is "email safe". I.e. it does not accept any characters: only bytes. If you want to encode a char sequence using base64, you first need to convert your char sequence into a byte sequence, using encode-coding-string. Stefan