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Re: character encoding question
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: character encoding question |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:48:48 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:42:49 -0500
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> > Given a series of mystery bytes, can I test them against different
> > charsets, and see what gibberish Emacs comes up with?
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> (decode-coding-string "\344\270\255" 'utf-8) ==> "δΈ"
I'd actually suggest decode-coding-region, because it doesn't require
copying the "mystery bytes" into a string, something that might change
the bytes.