From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 22:48:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19937.49705.729096.450819@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8362oub48n.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun May 29 2011 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 19:27:51 -0500
> > From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
> > I am trying to use emacs to interface with a program that treats
> > utf-8 characters in its input and output as octal escape sequences.
> > So the program's output contains ascii strings like "\302\247",
> > which I want to display within Emacs as "§". Likewise, I want to
> > feed text containing utf-8 characters such as "§" into this program.
> > So I need to convert these utf-8 characters back to their respective
> > octal escape sequences. What is the proper way to achieve this?
>
> A new coding-system?
I cannot claim I understand these things. But I thought that there
was some kind of a "conversion formula" that allows one to calculate
the octal sequence for any utf-8 character and also the opposite,
get the character given the octal sequence. Is this true?
There is a little tool uni2ascii which seems to implement this, see
http://directory.fsf.org/project/uni2ascii/
But if possible I would like to achieve this from within Emacs.
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-29 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 0:27 converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 2:57 ` Leo
2011-05-29 5:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:35 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 20:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 6:58 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 19:15 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-29 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 3:48 ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2011-05-30 22:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 7:14 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-05-31 17:06 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 20:13 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-30 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 21:06 ` Roland Winkler
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