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
next prev 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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