Re: How to convert char from Emacs-20 internal to UTF-8?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I apologize for the "retro" question, but I was wondering if there was an
> easy way to convert a character in the Emacs-20 internal 19-bit encoding
> (from FAST_GLYPH_CHAR(glyph)) to UTF-8 (preferable) or straight Unicode.
> I'd like to do it fully within C if possible, and it needs to be efficient.

Since Emacs-21's internal chars are a superset of Emacs-20's internal chars,
you can just use Emacs-21's facilities like (encode-coding-string <str>
'utf-8) or (encode-char <char> 'ucs).


        Stefan