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Re: coding system
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: coding system |
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Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:54:03 -0500 |
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>> into sequences of bytes which can be unibyte or multibyte. This same "é"
>> can be represented in some files with a single byte (e.g. if it's
>> a latin-1 file) or as two bytes (e.g. if it's a utf-8 file), or ...
> That "or ..." is pregnant with meaning. It seems that the same
> character can be represented in the same buffer itself with 3 or more
> different byte sequences.
While what you say is true, this is not that to which I was referring.
I was not talking about byte-sequences in buffers but in files.
Stefan