Re: [wenbinye@gmail.com: hexl-max-address in hexl-mode is incorrect]

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

>> The hexl-max-address usually set to buffer-size, but when the buffer
>> contain a multiple byte character or the file associated to the buffer
>> is  encoded by multibyte coding system such as utf-16, the
>> hexl-max-address is  usually less the the real byte of buffer.
>
> However, the (decode-coding-string (buffer-string) buffer-file-coding-system)
> method doesn't seem to work for me; it returns erratic incorrect
> results.

Actually, I think the correct thing to do is to ENcode the buffer
string, not DEcode it.

(length (encode-coding-string (buffer-string) buffer-file-coding-system))

This seems to produce the correct results.