Re: converting octal escape sequences to utf-8 and back

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 19:27:51 -0500
> From: "Roland Winkler" <address@hidden>
> 
> I am trying to use emacs to interface with a program that treats
> utf-8 characters in its input and output as octal escape sequences.
> So the program's output contains ascii strings like "\302\247",
> which I want to display within Emacs as "§". Likewise, I want to
> feed text containing utf-8 characters such as "§" into this program.
> So I need to convert these utf-8 characters back to their respective
> octal escape sequences. What is the proper way to achieve this?

A new coding-system?