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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to calculate the size of string in bytes?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:35:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fv3glfm0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150818160145.GA18309@tuxteam.de>

> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:01:45 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> I was thinking of "characters not expressible in UTF-8". Does Emacs have
> those?

Raw bytes come out as themselves (which might be invalid UTF-8), but
that's not a failure, that's the user's fault, because they had those
bytes in the buffer to begin with.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-18 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-18  9:11 how to calculate the size of string in bytes? Sam Halliday
2015-08-18 10:13 ` tomas
2015-08-18 14:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-18 14:45     ` tomas
2015-08-18 15:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-18 16:01         ` tomas
2015-08-18 16:35           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-18 19:30             ` tomas
2015-08-18 19:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-18 20:11                 ` tomas
2015-08-18 21:47   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-19  5:43     ` tomas
     [not found]   ` <mailman.8577.1439934462.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-19  8:57     ` Sam Halliday
2015-08-19  9:22       ` Sam Halliday
2015-08-19 19:47       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.8504.1439892841.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-18 10:43   ` Sam Halliday
2015-08-18 11:47     ` tomas
     [not found]     ` <mailman.8510.1439898432.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-18 12:06       ` Sam Halliday
2015-08-18 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii

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