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Re: `decode-coding-string' question
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David Kastrup |
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Re: `decode-coding-string' question |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:56:04 +0200 |
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Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > To know what character is encoded by this C sequence, I first translate
>> > strings "\xc2" and "\xa9" to the appropriate (undecoded!) characters.
>> > The resulting string of length 2 is encoded in UTF-8 and I decode it
>> > to receive the copyright character or whatever.
>>
>> Why not use `(decode-coding-string "\xc2\xa9" 'utf-8)' right away? It
>> gives me the right character directly.
>
> Because you underquoted the string. It is actually `(decode-coding-string
> "\\xc2\\xa9" 'utf-8)' and does nothing...
Because you overquoted the string...
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, (continued)
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Kenichi Handa, 2006/07/05
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Paul Pogonyshev, 2006/07/06
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/06
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Paul Pogonyshev, 2006/07/06
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/07
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Paul Pogonyshev, 2006/07/07
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Paul Pogonyshev, 2006/07/07
- Re: `decode-coding-string' question, David Kastrup, 2006/07/08
Re: `decode-coding-string' question, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/04