From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MON KEY Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6283: doc/lispref/searching.texi reference to octal code `0377' correct? Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:45:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83vda9md09.fsf@gnu.org> <83sk5cmr8k.fsf@gnu.org> <83sk5btdcu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1275317879 29501 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2010 14:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6283@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 31 16:57:58 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6RB-0002df-AD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 16:57:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJ6RA-0005Pr-0l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45410 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OJ6Qv-0005MS-TH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6Qt-0003eJ-PO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6Qt-0003e6-MR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6Gc-0004rl-0u; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: MON KEY Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6283 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6283-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6283.127531716618690 (code B ref 6283); Mon, 31 May 2010 14:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6283) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 May 2010 14:46:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6Fh-0004rP-8I for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f172.google.com ([209.85.160.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OJ6Fe-0004r1-NA for 6283@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2010 10:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so2626051gyh.3 for <6283@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 31 May 2010 07:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.254.7 with SMTP id b7mr5511807ybi.293.1275317159743; Mon, 31 May 2010 07:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.143.21 with HTTP; Mon, 31 May 2010 07:45:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83sk5btdcu.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: hiN5WDg4J0SiesV1GLGvB7lLmdI X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:47:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:37442 Archived-At: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Should it be, esp. as 0377 is not a representation exposed by the >> Emacs user level interface (at least none that that I'm aware of). > > Again, this part of the manual is not about how Emacs represents > characters or reads them. =C2=A0It's about their codes. > Noticed this morning the following section of the manual which references hex values in radian notation: ,---- (info "(elisp)Coding Systems") | | The result of encoding, and the input to decoding, are not ordinary | text. They logically consist of a series of byte values; that is, a | series of ASCII and eight-bit characters. In unibyte buffers and | strings, these characters have codes in the range 0 through #xFF | (255). In a multibyte buffer or string, eight-bit characters have | character codes higher than #xFF (*note Text Representations::), but | Emacs transparently converts them to their single-byte values when you | encode or decode such text. | `---- This is, I believe an example of contradictory convention in the manual. --=20 /s_P\