From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22236 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: utf-7 decoding? Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:09:39 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199903290058.TAA10909@sclp3.sclp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160192 27041 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:29:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:29:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24580 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:10:44 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB06463; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:10:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Apr 1999 09:10:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02454 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:10:20 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA (degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.24.51]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24569 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:10:12 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA (IDENT:pinard@trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA [132.204.26.206]) by degusse.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA01055 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:09:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from pinard@localhost) by trex.IRO.UMontreal.CA (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA02828; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:09:39 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "b_m|CE6#'Q8fliQrwHl9K,]PA_o'*S~Dva{~b1n*)K*A(BIwQW.:LY?t4~xhYka_.LV?Qq `}X|71X0ea&H]9Dsk!`kxBXlG;q$mLfv_vtaHK_rHFKu]4'<*LWCyUe@ZcI6"*wB5M@[m écrit: > François Pinard writes: > > Byte manipulations in Emacs LISP is usually rather slow. For Q-P and Base64 > > conversions, I use `recode' instead of the Emacs LISP code (which is quite > > natural as I'm exercising the pretest) and it is surely faster for me. > The base64 functions are in the C layer in Emacs 20.4, so that should > be fast. (The code is from recode, even. :-) Kind of.) QP is > usually used when there's not all that much to encode (I mean, when > most of the text is us-ascii), so putting that into the C layer is > probably not worth the bother, I think. I have a similar feeling. And to me, UTF-7 is a kind of QP meant for Unicode, and maybe a similar reasonning could make Emacs-LISP tolerable. Instead of speaking about it, I should attempt writing some code. Things should become a little less stressing for me in a few weeks, and it might even be fun writing this. But of course, Lars, I would not like to steel this pleasure from you, if you feel like having it sooner! :-) -- François Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard