Re: decode-coding-string question

[David Golden]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> This should decode to нуль but doesn't (I get the same string
> instead):
> 
> (decode-coding-string "íîëü" 'cp1251)
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?  Do I need to encode the string to
> something else?
>
Guessing you're using a new multibyte/unicode emacs, and noting that I
do not currently fully understand  emacs encoding handling, but...
probably - try:

(decode-coding-string (encode-coding-string "íîëü" 'iso-8859-1) 'cp1251)