From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:16:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20091118191258.GA2676@muc.de> <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258626775 18479 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 10:32:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 11:32:49 2009 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 1NB4Jk-0001Ye-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:32:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB4Jj-00037e-FI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:32:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB448-0005Dg-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB442-0005B1-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39505 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB442-0005Ao-Cq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:6694) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NB442-0002jW-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAJAG6Id017485 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from hase.home (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAJAG3pb004868; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:04 -0500 X-Yow: Just to have MORE FUN, I'll pretend I am JAMES CAGNEY and I am having a tense, UP-TIGHT EXPERIENCE!! In-Reply-To: <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:20:40 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.21 X-detected-operating-system: 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:117242 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > So my `aset' invocation is trying to write a multibyte ?=C3=B1 into a > unibyte ?\n, and gets truncated from #x8f1 to #xf1 in the process. Nothing gets truncated. In Emacs 23 ?=C3=B1 is simply the number 241, whereas in Emacs 22 is it the number 2289. You can put 2289 in a string in Emacs 23, but there is no defined unicode character with that value. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."