From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Alain Schneble <a.s@realize.ch>,
dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: distinguishing multibyte/unibyte ASCII
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 16:46:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1t0s7qm5.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fup87rpl.fsf@toke.dk> ("Toke Høiland-Jørgensen"'s message of "Fri, 09 Sep 2016 22:17:58 +0200")
> Isn't Unicode fun? :)
Actually it's not really due to Unicode. It's due to the fact that
Emacs Lisp doesn't clearly distinguish chars and bytes (and strings of
bytes and strings of chars) so we sometimes have to guess which one
is meant.
In practice it works surprisingly well, and lets most coders live their
life without having to know and understand the difference, but the
actual precise details are sometimes rather brittle because of its
DWIMish nature.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-09 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-07 15:30 [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-07 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-07 16:52 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-07 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 18:25 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-08 14:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-08 14:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-08 14:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-08 15:58 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-08 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-08 17:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-08 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-08 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-08 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-08 20:29 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 14:56 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 15:16 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 15:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-09-09 15:15 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 18:02 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 18:07 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-09 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 19:21 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 19:47 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-09 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 19:56 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-10 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-10 8:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-09-10 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-09 20:01 ` distinguishing multibyte/unibyte ASCII (was: [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string.) Stefan Monnier
2016-09-09 20:17 ` distinguishing multibyte/unibyte ASCII Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-09 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-09-09 21:02 ` Alain Schneble
2016-09-10 5:50 ` distinguishing multibyte/unibyte ASCII (was: [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string.) Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-07 19:14 ` [PATCH] url: Wrap cookie headers in url-http--encode-string Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-09-07 20:49 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2016-09-08 2:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-08 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-09-08 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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