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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-bytes and coding systems
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 04:02:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr325a4jv.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83tw72fnha.fsf@gnu.org

>> When this text gets written to file it will also be encoded as
>> utf-8, ergo testing string lengths with `string-bytes' is going to
>> always produce the right results in the final file.
> I suggest to use filepos-to-bufferpos to find where to break text into
> lines.

BTW, filepos-to-bufferpos uses string-bytes (or equivalent data, with
the same caveat for raw bytes) for utf-8 buffers ;-)


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-10  9:02 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 [this message]
2017-03-10 16:37     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 18:26       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-03-10 18:56         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-03-10 19:10           ` Stefan Monnier

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