Re: how to calculate the size of string in bytes?

[tomas]

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 05:47:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > It seems somewhat wasteful to encode msg (to find its length) just
> > to let process-send-string encode again -- perhaps there's a better
> > idiom around for that.
> 
> Yup: communicate with the process using bytes rather than chars!
> 
> I.e. set the process's coding system to binary.
> 
> Then you just need to call (encode-coding-string msg coding-system) once
> to get the bytes and you send them as is: they won't be re-encoded.

(pats forehead) Of course! Thanks, Stefan.

regards
- -- t
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