From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 26796@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 14:06:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337cifdmq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3o9v6z2jq.fsf@stories> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 06 May 2017 12:45:45 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: 26796@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 12:45:45 +0200
>
> But this is questionable, at least:
>
> (with-temp-buffer (set-buffer-multibyte nil) (insert-file-contents "~/rms.jpg") (write-region (point-min) (point-max) "/tmp/a.jpg"))
> Wrote ‘/tmp/a.jpg’ (889 characters)
>
> There are no characters in a JPEG file; it's all bytes.
Each byte is a character in this case, right?
Anyway, since you don't like this feature, it's clear that you can
come up with many examples where you don't like the result. People
who do like it will most probably disagree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-06 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 9:49 bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-06 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06 10:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-06 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-05-06 11:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-05-06 12:16 ` npostavs
2017-05-06 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-06 17:21 ` npostavs
2017-05-08 5:02 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-05-08 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-08 15:59 ` Glenn Morris
2017-05-08 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-09 0:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-05-09 4:39 ` npostavs
2017-05-07 1:11 ` Paul Eggert
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