From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Creating a coding system
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:53:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tx0qqn4d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjaigtkz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:43:40 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> >>> The translation table operates on the decoded contents.
> >>
> >> Why would something be decoded twice in a row?
> >
> > You don't know the characters before decoding.
>
> That's an "Andreas" answer: an insider joke comprehensible only once you
> already know the answer. It's not even a hint.
:-)
Let me try being a bit more helpful. The translation table is a
char-table that converts one character into another. Since these
tables convert _characters_, you need to have a character before you
apply the table. To have a character, you need to decode the byte
stream into characters.
You can find more details on this in the node "Translation of
Characters" in the ELisp manual.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-20 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-20 9:05 Creating a coding system David Kastrup
2014-12-20 10:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-20 10:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 13:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-20 14:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 15:56 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-20 16:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-20 16:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-20 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-20 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 18:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-20 18:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 19:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 20:11 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 21:15 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-21 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-21 21:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-21 5:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-20 16:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-20 16:52 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-20 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-20 18:42 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-23 8:59 ` K. Handa
2014-12-23 9:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-24 15:06 ` K. Handa
2014-12-25 6:39 ` David Kastrup
2014-12-29 14:11 ` K. Handa
2014-12-29 14:25 ` David Kastrup
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