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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: suggestion: function: buffer-bytes
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:44:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I7jF1-0002Nl-B8@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5teoqvj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:42:31 -0400)

In article <jwvk5teoqvj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > But for the use case I needed, namely someone composing blog
> > entries using nxml-mode,
> > and then building up an http post message from what they created,
> > the position-bytes solution does work.

> If it worked in some case, it was only by accident, unless they specifically
> decided to use emacs-mule as the coding system for their file (and to switch
> wholesale to utf-8 at the exact time they upgrade their Emacs), which would
> be rather unusual.

Right.  By the way, currently emacs-mule uses 2-bytes, for
instance, for Latin-1 characters, and UTF-8 also uses
2-bytes for them.  So, in the case of sending a Latin-1 text
to a process with UTF-8, position-bytes solution works just
by chance.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-01  0:18 suggestion: function: buffer-bytes T. V. Raman
2007-07-01  1:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-01  2:40   ` T. V. Raman
2007-07-01  6:31     ` David Kastrup
2007-07-01  8:22     ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-01 12:39       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-02  0:48         ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-01 17:47       ` T. V. Raman
2007-07-02  1:11         ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-04 16:31           ` T. V. Raman
2007-07-05 14:42             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-09  2:44               ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2007-07-01 19:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-02  0:55         ` Kenichi Handa

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