From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Creating a coding system Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:50:40 +0200 Message-ID: <8361d6s7cv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppbeitcs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87sigasa3n.fsf@igel.home> <878ui2ieu1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419087085 1990 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2014 14:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 15:51:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2LNF-0000hW-60 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:51:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2LNE-0008NN-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2LMx-0008NB-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2LMr-0004yp-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:59549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2LMk-0004wa-Lk; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGV00200X7DEU00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:42:53 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGV00K4UY7HNM90@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:42:53 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878ui2ieu1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180379 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:19:18 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Does decoding not start from a byte stream but rather from an > emacs-utf-8 encoded version of a byte stream? If you decode a unibyte string or buffer, then the former; otherwise the latter. IOW, you can decode either version, and both should work. (Caveat: I don't really understand what you are trying to do -- my fault, not yours -- so I hope I understood this question correctly.)