From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: string-bytes and coding systems Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:26:27 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r327nyto.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83tw72fnha.fsf@gnu.org> <877f3xw0j7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1489170436 16306 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2017 18:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:27:16 +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 Fri Mar 10 19:27:11 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 1cmPFr-0003ZR-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:27:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmPFx-0000uN-ML for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmPFW-0000uF-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmPFT-0007jg-Rq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56985 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmPFT-0007jB-KM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:26:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cmPFK-0000L2-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:26:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:qlw21kAlm38/034tZ3/PH3CsCww= 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:112520 Archived-At: > 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). Stefan