From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:37:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ECF2988-32AC-4558-90BF-4E36DF960966@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinrOvv6D63L9KzXjeVpFvkf94_s2n0xTD4LQ1zd@mail.gmail.com>
Am 03.01.2011 um 11:13 schrieb Deniz Dogan:
> I read on Wikipedia: "Octal representation of non-ASCII bytes may be
> particularly handy with UTF-8, where any start byte has octal value
> \3nn and any continuation byte has octal value \2nn."
>
> Is this the reason perhaps?
Certainly not! GNU Emacs was octal before someone imagined "Unicode"...
It comes from sparse memory. One byte is two nibbles! (1 € is almost 2
ancient DM.) UNIX file permissions are octal. C is great in shifting
bits around.
--
Greetings
Pete
Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
– Allen's Law
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-28 15:39 How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX? Oleksandr Gavenko
2010-12-28 15:51 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.6.1293551515.18545.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-03 7:14 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-03 10:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-01-03 14:37 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2011-01-04 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1294038895.27854.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-03 13:42 ` Barry Margolin
2011-01-11 10:23 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1294741438.20926.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-11 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-12 9:22 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
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