From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `decode-coding-string' question Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:03:35 +0200 Message-ID: <851wt1ikt4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200607040035.01379.pogonyshev@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152018408 31836 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2006 13:06:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 15:06:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkbU-0004E5-4b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:06:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkbT-0000BK-L3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkaM-0008MB-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkaL-0008Lg-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxkaL-0008LY-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fxkns-00042h-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1FxkZe-0002IL-Q8; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:04:20 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id ED4EE1C4D3B9; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:03:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:55:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56488 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Say I have a string with various text properties set. If I then > apply `decode-coding-string' to it, all the properties are lost. > Is there a way to transfer properties from ``character beginning'' > (i.e. first character of a number being combined during decoding) > to the decoded character? > > It would be a nice improvement to make, but not trivial. I think it would be more important that recoding/encoding/decoding preserved markers. Again, likely not trivial. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum