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bug#53236: 26.1; encode-coding-string does not encode the string as expe
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#53236: 26.1; encode-coding-string does not encode the string as expected |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:55:30 +0200 |
> From: Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:45:57 +0100
>
> Correspondingly, I expect (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) to yield
> a string equivalent to "\xC2\x80", but that seems not to be the case. I get:
>
> (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) --> "\200"
>
> And therefore, unexpectedly:
>
> (string= (encode-coding-string "\200" 'utf-8) "\xC2\x80") --> nil
"\200" is a unibyte string, and encoding unibyte strings returns those
strings without changing them.
This is not a bug, just a dark corner of encoding/decoding stuff.