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Re: string-bytes and coding systems
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: string-bytes and coding systems |
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Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:56:36 -0800 |
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Hmm, maybe it will be bindat.el after all! Or I'll just keep the current
>> in-buffer string-bytes approach and wait for something to explode.
>
> Basically, as long as the data is truly utf-8, string-bytes should give
> you the correct answer. The differences should only occur on characters
> which are outside of utf-8 proper (used to represent invalid utf-8 data).
Sounds close enough for me.
Re: string-bytes and coding systems, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/09