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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte b
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Robert Pluim |
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Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer |
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Tue, 28 May 2019 17:11:22 +0200 |
>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2019 17:59:39 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 09:06:37 +0200
>>
>> Itʼs clear enough to me now. The only thing that trips me up is this
>> kind of phrase (from (info "(elisp)Coding System Basics")
>>
>> When you use ‘raw-text’ to encode multibyte text, it does perform
>> one character code conversion: it converts eight-bit characters to
>> their single-byte external representation.
>>
>> because I always forget that eight-bit characters have a multi-byte
>> representation in the emacs-internal coding system.
Eli> So why does that trip you? It reminds you what you tend to forget, so
Eli> it's a good documentation, right?
Itʼs just a moment of cognitive dissonance: "why does it convert
eight-bit characters? They're one byte in size! Oh actually they're
not". So yes, in that sense itʼs good, it prevents the propagation of
my misconception.
Robert
Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27
Re: emacs-26 8f18d12: Improve documentation of decoding into a unibyte buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/05/27