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Re: character encoding question
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: character encoding question |
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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:42:24 +0800 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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"
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> 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.
Perfect, just what I was looking for. I was getting tired of repeated
revert-buffer-with-etc calls! The explanation about the octal notation
cleared things up nicely, as well.
Many thanks,
Eric