From: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Question: estimating size of a buffer when written to file?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:29:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ilvzkqkl.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yrzw0er.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:01:48 +0100")
Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2021 15:55:42 +0000 Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>>> Is (string-bytes (buffer-string)) not reliable?
>>>
>>> Steve Berman
>> I’m not very familiar with different kinds of encoding,
>> but would some coding system result in final
>> writes longer than internal string-bytes?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know either.
>
Yes, if the coding system is not the UTF-8 variant used by Emacs
internally, the result won't be accurate for some scripts. You need to
encode the contents of the buffer/string using the value of
buffer-file-coding-system, for example, and call string-bytes on it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-08 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-08 15:33 Question: estimating size of a buffer when written to file? Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 15:52 ` Stephen Berman
2021-12-08 15:55 ` Qiantan Hong
2021-12-08 16:01 ` Stephen Berman
2021-12-08 16:29 ` Daniel Martín [this message]
2021-12-08 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-08 17:09 ` Qiantan Hong
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