From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:02:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20180528160240.GA29819@tuxteam.de> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <87r2lwkrbe.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180528103906.GB18767@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527523412 29488 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2018 16:03:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 16:03:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 28 18:03:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKcK-0007Zh-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 18:03:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57051 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKeR-0001Bz-8V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 12:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43360) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKbf-0008Hy-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKbb-0001Ar-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:57998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKba-0001AH-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=SOFU3VOc9zKiHzoDR+zTKXofydOLk30cqZrV0qPBMLk=; b=uKmGGXDAwuwA+MVj3HLfuBuDEypkUhT4XMtXEh/KxmNf9wW0bAbwdSd9KFjWUYfJgI3Ncbma+9icvyxUA/Aw/QJ9s5TFhhjs+TrIm/OQP7eKDkcsSvh8/O6z0/YOesweusKJRI+6viFo0ZiWwfxAQPoNsWCk2uds2J8tfPha30eHI66MQZequMgFitlJUqmHaNh/UbPx1u3PxdHZe07NzyOMMeBo2JzS4o8keEESaklZgwSjTsJJ9VgL2R0GuOMPKf6w0Lnijq3yAWs101fnVfQW7WWpJitZR0fetvhNvYDi1PwllT6Y/I9hHI4mCnHt8B4+zppfQLh5y9Y2Uy+x0Q==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fNKbY-0008QK-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 18:02:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116883 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:30:38PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 5:39 PM wrote: > > > One often-used method is to just URL-encode [1] the thing [...] [...] > %3D ‘=’ and %2F ‘/’ are Trained Rat Level 1 material. Under your > suggestion, my name is %D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD and it > takes a certain effort to decode that in my head. I seriously doubt Tak > Kunihiro’s urlencoded name could be read at all without decoding. This is all Enlightened Beaver level. I'm far below that... > (On the other hand, I regularly get offended at banks trying to > automatically transliterate my name when issuing a card for me.) FWIW, I've got one accented letter, and used to give out my name with that, to see what comes back from the round trip. Hilarity :-) Things have become much more boring the last fifteen to twenty years, though. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlsMKCAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY3IwCffQEZ5cn/K4rd8Vs9SigmROvx r4kAnifbFp8deNRQ6p4nJgW4ZIxx3Zmy =ntf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----