From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-bytes and coding systems
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:56:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3wd2c63.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwpbx3s73.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Hmm, maybe it will be bindat.el after all! Or I'll just keep the current
>> in-buffer string-bytes approach and wait for something to explode.
>
> Basically, as long as the data is truly utf-8, string-bytes should give
> you the correct answer. The differences should only occur on characters
> which are outside of utf-8 proper (used to represent invalid utf-8 data).
Sounds close enough for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-10 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-08 23:17 string-bytes and coding systems Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-09 7:46 ` hector
2017-03-09 7:54 ` Yuri Khan
2017-03-09 9:23 ` hector
2017-03-09 17:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 4:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-10 6:36 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 4:59 ` Alexis
2017-03-10 6:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-09 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-09 17:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 9:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 16:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 18:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 18:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-03-10 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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