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Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings |
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Fri, 06 May 2022 09:45:01 -0700 |
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Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>> If the search string is multibyte (in my mind this means "multiple bytes
>> per character", I guess that's where I went wrong), you have to encode
>
> In ELisp, "multibyte" means "a sequence of characters", whereas
> "unibyte" means "a sequence of bytes".
Okay, thanks. I'd thought that distinction was covered by "encoded" vs
"decoded" strings. Maybe the lesson will stick this time.
- More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eric Abrahamsen, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eric Abrahamsen, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eric Abrahamsen, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Stefan Monnier, 2022/05/05
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings,
Eric Abrahamsen <=
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Stefan Monnier, 2022/05/06
- Re: More confusion about multibyte vs unibyte strings, Eric Abrahamsen, 2022/05/06