From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: string-bytes and coding systems Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 09:36:03 -0800 Message-ID: <87pohqmjy4.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r327nyto.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <20170309074620.GA2969@workstation> <20170309092328.GA4418@workstation> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489081286 653 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2017 17:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 17:41:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 09 18:41:21 2017 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 1cm23u-0007UN-8S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:41:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35527 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cm240-0007ON-8Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:41:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cm23E-0007C6-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cm239-0007km-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36182 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cm239-0007kK-91 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:40:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cm22p-0001Qs-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2017 18:40:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JAqEpwh4eMq7f53E872g8sEYO7I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112493 Archived-At: hector writes: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:54:16PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:46 PM, hector wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:17:07PM -0800, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> >> I'm writing a function that's supposed to wrap too-long text lines; the >> >> RFC says anything over 75 octets (excluding eol) needs to be wrapped, >> >> but multibyte characters must not be split. >> > >> > Why don't you just use fill-paragraph? >> >> Because that works in terms of characters, not octets? > > Right. > It would be weird for a user command to work in terms of octets, wouldn't it? It's not really a user command, I'm exporting vCard objects to a file.