Re: decode-coding-string question

[Dmitry Dzhus]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Dmitry Dzhus <dima@sphinx.net.ru>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:19:11 +0400
>> 
>> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> 
>> > This should decode to нуль but doesn't (I get the same string instead):
>> >
>> > (decode-coding-string "íîëü" 'cp1251)
>> >
>> > Am I missing something obvious?  Do I need to encode the string to
>> > something else?
>> 
>> 0. «íóëü», not «íîëü»
>
> That's not important, the original problem remains, even with a
> different spelling of the word.

That was nitpicking somewhat irrelevant to unibyte-multibyte problem:
Ted expected to get «нуль», and it's «íóëü», though the string he
originally provided — «íîëü» — decodes to «ноль»; however, both «нуль»
and «ноль» mean «zero».
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