From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX? Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:37:34 +0100 Message-ID: <5ECF2988-32AC-4558-90BF-4E36DF960966@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294065761 908 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2011 14:42:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:42:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier To: Deniz Dogan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 15:42:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZlcL-0006uE-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:42:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZlcK-0006rg-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41276 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZlXW-0004bL-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:37:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZlXV-0002lp-H8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:37:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:53843) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PZlXV-0002ll-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:37:37 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp04.web.de ( [172.20.0.225]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFD4184C182A; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:37:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.221.46] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp04.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1PZlXT-0007MP-00; Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:37:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+fuKytRqWiB1FnA3cIAgrwSbFTpUbuplADKuT9 HBMt5Jz8pd2i+iskTb13G60ThY0l3SXBbCkapbyLdALjdR8ky0 NTy/FpcKgkDdxrgJThYw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78104 Archived-At: Am 03.01.2011 um 11:13 schrieb Deniz Dogan: > I read on Wikipedia: "Octal representation of non-ASCII bytes may be > particularly handy with UTF-8, where any start byte has octal value > \3nn and any continuation byte has octal value \2nn." > > Is this the reason perhaps? Certainly not! GNU Emacs was octal before someone imagined "Unicode"... It comes from sparse memory. One byte is two nibbles! (1 =80 is almost 2 = =20 ancient DM.) UNIX file permissions are octal. C is great in shifting =20 bits around. -- Greetings Pete Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. =96 Allen's Law