From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 1215@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1215: 23.0.60; unibyte->multibyte conversion problem (in
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:47:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwveiz4ug6f.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0901151619n67e15abrfc6f9186d64da18a@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:19:50 +0100")
>> There's a bug here, indeed: Emacs should refuse to save such a file,
>> because raw-text-unix (to which I prefer to refer as `binary') cannot
>> encode « and ».
> Why not? « is U+00AB and » is U+00BB.
Neither of which is a byte. The byte 0xAB is the Emacs character
#x3fffab, as shown by (unibyte-char-to-multibyte #xab).
If you save that file and read it back in, you'll see that its content
has changed. `save-buffer' should not silently save if it will
lose information.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 16:00 bug#1215: 23.0.60; unibyte->multibyte conversion problem (in search-forward and friends) Eduardo Ochs
2008-10-22 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 0:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-16 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-16 2:59 ` bug#1215: 23.0.60; unibyte->multibyte conversion problem (in Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-16 3:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-16 11:08 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-16 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-17 10:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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