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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:27:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqr9vwby.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoskqdf1wu.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:18:41 +0900
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> 
> Text in a unibyte buffer is simply a bunch of binary characters
> 0-255

Here you are saying what I was saying: that these are just raw 8-bit
bytes.

> you can interpret them however you want, of course, but that's
> not how emacs sees it.

I don't mind saying that displaying such a buffer or string or
movement by characters _interprets_ each byte as a single character.
But interpretation and essence are two different things, and the
manual does not make a point of telling that what it describes is the
Emacs interpretation of such buffers, not what is actually held there.

Thanks for the feedback, I will try to rephrase that text to make this
distinction more clear.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 11:05 Unibyte characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-31 11:27   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-10-31 14:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 15:02       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-31 18:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 21:15         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-01 10:47           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-02  1:59             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 19:30 ` Richard M. Stallman

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