Re: `decode-coding-string' question

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:

> Bad.  OK, here is my task: I have a C string in the sources, possibly
> containing encoded characters, like

>       "foo bla \xc2\xa9",

> the last thing being the UTF-8 copyright characters.  I want to
> decode the string (can do that) _and_ know where particular
> characters begin. Currently I set text property `point' on character
> beginnings, but `decode-coding-string' eats them :(  Can anyone see a
> different solution, maybe ugly if nothing else?  (Except that custom
> implementation of `decode-coding-string' doesn't count as a solution
> ;)

Why don't you find paticular characters in the decoded
string?

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Kenichi Handa
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