Re: Encoding multibyte strings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:40:31 +0800
> 
> > Not sure what exactly are you looking for.  A wild guess is that
> 
> What I'm looking for, I guess, is this:
> 
> (mystery-function "陈”) --> "=E9=99=88"
> 
> >   (encode-coding-string 'utf-8 STRING)
> 
> (encode-coding-string "陈" 'utf-8) --> "\351\231\210"
> 
> So maybe what I need is a way to get from "\351\231\210" to "=E9=99=88"?
> 
> > and
> >
> >   (quoted-printable-encode-string STRING)
> 
> (quoted-printable-encode-string "陈")
> 
> Evalling the above gives me the message "Multibyte character in QP
> encoding region"

I said "and", didn't I?

  (quoted-printable-encode-string (encode-coding-string "陈" 'utf-8))
   --> "=E9=99=88"