Process filter and coding system (was: [AUCTeX] Re: debugging of multifile documents with TeX-next-error (2))

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2007-07-05) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * David Kastrup (2007-07-03) writes:
>>
>>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hm, but pasting together random stuff will not be trivial.
>>>
>>> Would be the job of the filter routine.
>>
>>> Given TeX's byte-centricity,
>>> it would have to be done even before decoding the byte stream into
>>> characters.
>>
>> Is the string passed to the filter function still a byte stream?
>
> set-process-coding-system is a built-in function in `src/process.c'.
> (set-process-coding-system PROCESS &optional DECODING ENCODING)
>
> Set coding systems of PROCESS to DECODING and ENCODING.
> DECODING will be used to decode subprocess output and ENCODING to
> encode subprocess input.
>
> [back]
>
> Setting DECODING to no-conversion will give byte streams to the filter
> function.  There is the problem of how to deal with incomplete
> characters in this case.

How would the output finally be decoded?  By calling
`detect-coding-region' and then `decode-coding-region' on the whole
output buffer after process exit?

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-- 
Ralf