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bug#1215: 23.0.60; unibyte->multibyte conversion problem (in
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#1215: 23.0.60; unibyte->multibyte conversion problem (in |
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:47:04 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> There's a bug here, indeed: Emacs should refuse to save such a file,
>> because raw-text-unix (to which I prefer to refer as `binary') cannot
>> encode « and ».
> Why not? « is U+00AB and » is U+00BB.
Neither of which is a byte. The byte 0xAB is the Emacs character
#x3fffab, as shown by (unibyte-char-to-multibyte #xab).
If you save that file and read it back in, you'll see that its content
has changed. `save-buffer' should not silently save if it will
lose information.
Stefan