From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 12:39:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180528103906.GB18767@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2lwkrbe.fsf@mbork.pl>
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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:28:05PM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> On 2018-05-28, at 10:15, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> schrieb am So., 27. Mai 2018 um 14:38 Uhr:
> >
> >> I understand that.
> >>
> >> Still, I need something *simple*. I have a person's name (possibly with
> >> some national characters), and I want to derive a filename from it [...]
> That's an interesting idea. However, I disagree. My idea is to have
> a number (because that helps to keep some order, and there may be - and
> sometimes are - more than one item relating to the same person), but
> a name is _very_ helpful for menomic reasons.
One often-used method is to just URL-encode [1] the thing. On the plus
side, it's always ASCII and you have a "lossless" mapping back and forth,
on the down side you lose lexicographic order and (some) readability
(although we trained rats have already learnt to cope with %3D and %2F)
Emacs supports that with the pair of functions `url-hexify-string' and
`url-unhex-string' (see, Eli? Sometimes even /me finds something .-)
Cheers
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-28 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 6:22 Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 7:36 ` tomas
2018-05-27 12:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 12:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-27 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:59 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-28 5:24 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-30 19:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 20:00 ` tomas
2018-05-28 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29 6:37 ` tomas
2018-05-27 13:04 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 10:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 11:51 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 15:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 2:03 ` John Mastro
2018-06-02 18:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:48 ` tomas
2018-06-07 17:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 22:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07 17:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 19:53 ` tomas
2018-05-28 8:15 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-28 10:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-28 10:39 ` tomas [this message]
2018-05-28 15:30 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-28 16:02 ` tomas
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 15:08 ` S. Champailler
2018-05-31 22:52 ` Richard Wordingham
2018-05-31 15:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.871.1527781438.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 23:23 ` James K. Lowden
2018-06-01 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 14:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-27 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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