Re: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>  > unibyte sequence (hex): 81    81    C0    C0
>>  >                         result of conversion    display in multbyte buffer
>>  > string-as-multibyte:    9E A1 81    C0    C0    \201À\300
>>  > string-make-multibyte:  9E A1 9E A1 81 C0 81 C0 \201\201ÀÀ
>>  > string-to-multibyte:    9E A1 9E A1 C0    C0    \201\201\300\300
>>  [...]
>>  3 - when called with a `raw-text' coding-system, decode-coding-string
>>      returns a unibyte string

> I might be missing something, but I think you are wrong: the sequence
> "9E A1 9E A1 C0 C0" is _not_ a unibyte string.

I didn't wrote that is a unibyte string.  In the above
example, only the first line is the unibyte string.  The
remaining lines shows the result of unibyte->multibyte
conversion, thus they are multibyte strings.

> For example, "9E A1" is the multibyte encoding of the 81
> byte.

Yes.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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