Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) (2011-05-30 22:39:51 UTC)]

> >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Winkler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Roland> So the program's output contains ascii strings like "\302\247",
> 
> Minor nit, but "ASCII" doesn't include anything above \177.  If it has a
> high-bit, it has to be something like latin-1, or (in your case) raw
> UTF-8 bytes.

True, but given the octal escape sequences mentioned in the subject I
thought he meant the string that is denoted "\\302\\247" in elisp,
which is indeed ASCII. But that could be a misunderstanding on my
part.

- Harald