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Re: is this a bug? string-equal seems to act strangely
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Chris Moore |
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Re: is this a bug? string-equal seems to act strangely |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:29:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't remember why but the Lisp reader reads "\200" as a unibyte
> string but if \x notation appears in a string, it is read as a
> multibyte string.
Thanks. I see that documented in (elisp) Non-ASCII in Strings:
You can also represent a multibyte non-ASCII character with its
character code: use a hex escape, `\xNNNNNNN', with as many digits
as necessary.
[...]
using any hex escape in a string (even for an ASCII character)
forces the string to be multibyte
Is there a good reason why using \xNN should cause the string to be
multibyte? It seems counterintuitive to me.