From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.lisp.gcl.devel Subject: Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83wq7hzf9t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq7jxc7d.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjcfx985.fsf_-_@maguirefamily.org> <83mw8f0w08.fsf@gnu.org> <87oasu3m72.fsf@maguirefamily.org> <83bnou26is.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnotwsqn.fsf@maguirefamily.org> <83y4rxzgmm.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhnxo73l.fsf@maguirefamily.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414777481 19549 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2014 17:44:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: gcl-devel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Camm Maguire Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 31 18:44:34 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 1XkGFU-00031m-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:44:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkGFT-0005D1-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49996) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkEHl-0004rq-Bf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjshf-0001jK-3T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:40175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjshe-0001iy-Rz; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NE900J00N7Z9H00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:36:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NE900JTLNG01940@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:36:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87lhnxo73l.fsf@maguirefamily.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:176102 gmane.lisp.gcl.devel:8795 Archived-At: > From: Camm Maguire > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, gcl-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:27:58 -0400 > > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "boxed character". A character in > > Emacs is just an int. > > > > Then how do you distinguish integers from characters at the lisp level? We don't -- except that a valid character's value must fit the Unicode range. There's no character data type in Emacs. (XEmacs does have it.)