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Re: Looking through multibyte_char_to_unibyte
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Looking through multibyte_char_to_unibyte |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:20:30 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:09:19 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
>
> int
> multibyte_char_to_unibyte (int c)
> {
> if (c < 0x80)
> return c;
> if (((c) > 0x3FFF7F))
> return (((c) > 0x3FFF7F) ? (c) - 0x3FFF00 : multibyte_char_to_unibyte
> (c));
> return (c & 0xFF);
> }
>
> Is this a subtle trick which I just can't understand and explain, or something
> is really wrong with this?
What do you think this function intends to do? IOW, how would you go
about "converting a multibyte character to unibyte", something that is
not possible in principle?