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Re: Emacs 23 character code space
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 23 character code space |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:13:48 +0200 |
> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:41:01 +0900
>
> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > A character set is a set of characters, and it assigns a unique code
> > point to each character belonging to the set. Emacs decodes a
> > specific code point of a specific character set to an Emacs character.
>
> > Does this mean a character set is equivalent to a coding-system,
> > meaning that a coding-system is a mapping between a character set and
> > the Emacs internal codepoints?
>
> No. A coding-system is a mapping between a sequence of
> characters and a sequence of bytes.
Then how to understand this sentence you wrote:
Emacs decodes a specific code point of a specific character set to
an Emacs character.
Under what circumstances does this decoding happen? The only type of
``decoding'' I knew about until now was by decode-coding-region and
friends, which use a coding-system to decode a byte sequence into
Emacs characters.
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, (continued)
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/01
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/02
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/03
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/03
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/04
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/04
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/05
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/05
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/22
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/25
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/25
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/25
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Kenichi Handa, 2008/11/26
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/29
- Re: Emacs 23 character code space, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/11/28