Re: Coding system robustness?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>  I'd like to know whether coding systems in general are supposed to be
>>  robust, meaning that decoding some random byte string into the coding
>>  system and reencoding it is guaranteed to deliver the same byte string
>>  again?

> AFAIK, (encode-coding-string (decode-coding-string STR 'foo) 'foo)
> should always return STR, otherwise it's a bug.
> With the introduction of eight-bit-*, this should be true of "all"
> coding-systems in Emacs-21,

No.  Redundant escape sequences in iso-2022 based coding
systems are just ignored.  For instance,

  (decode-coding-string "\e(J" 'iso-2022-jp) => ""

And we can't recover "\e(J" on encoding.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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