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Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: decode-coding-string gone awry? |
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Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:19:53 +0900 (JST) |
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In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I think it should not be considered valid to decode a multibyte string,
> whether the string happens to only contains ASCII (or ASCII+eight-bit-*)
> or not.
> But what would it mean, in the other cases?
> I see I misread the message the first time--I didn't see the "not".
> Now that I see it, I think maybe I agree.
> If you have a multibyte string that makes sense to decode, and you
> want to decode it, you could call string-as-unibyte first. That would
> be a way of overriding the error-check. It would not be hard to do,
> and it would prevent people from falling into problems that are
> mysterious because they don't know that the program decodes multibyte
> strings.
The source of the current problem is not that the code was
going to decode a multibyte string, but the code generated
an unexpected multibyte string (because of the mysterious
unibyte->multibyte automatic conversion).
As it has been a valid operation to decode an ascii and
eight-bit-* only multibyte string, I believe signalling an
error on it causes lots of problems. On the other hand,
signalling an error only if the string contains a non-ASCII
non-eight-bit-* character will be good.
As you wrote, the slowdown by checking it in advance will be
acceptable in the case of using decode-coding-string.
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, (continued)
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, David Kastrup, 2005/02/15
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/15
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/17
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Kenichi Handa, 2005/02/17
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/17
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Kenichi Handa, 2005/02/18
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/18
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/19
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/18
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/19
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?,
Kenichi Handa <=
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/22
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/18
Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, David Kastrup, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, David Kastrup, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, David Kastrup, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, Stefan Monnier, 2005/02/14
- Re: decode-coding-string gone awry?, David Kastrup, 2005/02/14