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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Characters saved mismatch?
Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 15:56:32 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WqmWVQR0t92uvq2uuoCzqFdRiRKB6WefCUXWbH8SWm-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f77855b6-9d27-901d-24f7-a7a5f62d43c0@alice.it>

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi@alice.it> wrote:

>   Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 characters)
>
> but
>
>   ls -l foo.text
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 bingo bongo 10  7 mag 01.07 foo.text
>
> 10 bytes!

You are comparing a character count against a byte count. Well *of
course* they are going to be different. The assumption “one character
is encoded by one byte” has been false for quite a while now.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-07  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06 23:27 Characters saved mismatch? Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  1:06 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-07  2:53   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-07  8:06   ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  8:52     ` Stephen Berman
2017-05-07  9:02       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  8:56 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-05-07  9:15   ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07  9:25     ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 10:50       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 12:41         ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 12:46     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-07 13:38       ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 14:07         ` Stefan Monnier

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