From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:57:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14o4e2oz3.fsf@th041091.ip.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19937.37639.583480.682350@gargle.gargle.HOWL
On 2011-05-29 08:27 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
> I am trying to use emacs to interface with a program that treats
> utf-8 characters in its input and output as octal escape sequences.
> So the program's output contains ascii strings like "\302\247",
> which I want to display within Emacs as "§". Likewise, I want to
> feed text containing utf-8 characters such as "§" into this program.
> So I need to convert these utf-8 characters back to their respective
> octal escape sequences. What is the proper way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Roland
Are these functions useful?
encode-coding-string, decode-coding-string
encode-coding-region, decode-coding-region
Leo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-29 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-29 0:27 converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 2:57 ` Leo [this message]
2011-05-29 5:40 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:35 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 20:05 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-05-29 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 6:58 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 19:15 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-29 8:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-05-29 3:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-29 3:48 ` Roland Winkler
2011-05-30 22:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 7:14 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2011-05-31 17:06 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2011-05-31 20:13 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-30 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-31 21:06 ` Roland Winkler
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