From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Mule Emacs 20.3 w/enable-multibyte-characters set to nil
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 04:53:28 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v1tlnci8qex.fsf@maru.rem.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rzqwvw382dh.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> Michael> I find the revelation that (string-to-vector
> Michael> (prin1-to-string "h\370a")) in a unibyte buffer returns [34
> Michael> 104 92 51 55 48 97 34] surprising, but as an internal
> Michael> encoding
>
> It isn't an internal encoding. It's an external print form, which is
> the point of `prin1' and friends.
>
> Michael> it doesn't really end up affecting the display of the
> Michael> buffer,
>
> You're seeing four ASCII characters representing `ø', not the display
> of one non-ASCII character.
>
> I hope that now makes some sense.
Yes it does, thank you.
--
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-15 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-09 16:05 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-09 16:21 ` Didier Verna
1999-07-09 20:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-09 17:20 ` Bill White
1999-07-09 18:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-09 19:57 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-07-09 20:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-07-11 22:50 ` Dave Love
1999-07-12 15:53 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1999-07-14 19:20 ` Dave Love
1999-07-15 4:53 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
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