From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character encoding question
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:48:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83obfeom7j.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwuz2gvt.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:42:49 -0500
>
> > Given a series of mystery bytes, can I test them against different
> > charsets, and see what gibberish Emacs comes up with?
>
> (decode-coding-string "\344\270\255" 'utf-8) ==> "中"
I'd actually suggest decode-coding-region, because it doesn't require
copying the "mystery bytes" into a string, something that might change
the bytes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 6:34 character encoding question Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-20 10:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-02-20 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-20 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-21 2:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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