From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug with UTF-8 string and dbus Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:11:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87typdnr08.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87r5kgg1ee.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276107106 18611 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2010 18:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Julien Danjou , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 09 20:11:44 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMPke-0008OJ-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:11:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMPkc-0001IE-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48405 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMPkU-0001EU-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMPkT-0006C3-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:39358 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMPkS-0006Bd-1A; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:11:32 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAE52D0xFxIMM/2dsb2JhbACeT3K/ZYUYBIxw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,393,1272859200"; d="scan'208";a="67692818" Original-Received: from 69-196-131-12.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.131.12]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 09 Jun 2010 14:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B4AEA660D4; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:11:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:01:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:125677 Archived-At: >> Since the spec says "must be valid UTF-8", I think that SDATA(object) >> might even be better than encoding to utf-8 since encoding to utf-8 will >> turn eight-bit-byte chars into raw bytes which will likely not make >> a valid utf-8 output. > Neither does emacs' internal encoding. AFAIK, Emacs's internal encoding is valid utf-8. It uses private characters for some things, but I don't think that makes it invalid. > If you have a non-utf8 string > you have lost already. Not sure what you mean by "non-utf8 string". Stefan