From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:18:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoskqdf1wu.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uljw5vxbh.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:05:54 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> But I think this is inaccurate and even misleading. For starters,
> unibyte buffers and strings can contain DBCS characters and UTF-8
> encoded text
It doesn't seem inaccurate or misleading -- it's talking about
characters as emacs (and the user, if the buffer is displayed) sees
them. Text in a unibyte buffer is simply a bunch of binary characters
0-255; you can interpret them however you want, of course, but that's
not how emacs sees it.
-Miles
--
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too
tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 11:05 Unibyte characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-10-31 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-31 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-01 10:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-02 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 19:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
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