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bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong |
Date: |
Sat, 06 May 2017 12:45:45 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Perhaps saying "(2 bytes)" will be more helpful?
>
> I really doubt that: Emacs users tend to think in terms of characters
> than in terms of bytes.
But this is questionable, at least:
(with-temp-buffer (set-buffer-multibyte nil) (insert-file-contents "~/rms.jpg")
(write-region (point-min) (point-max) "/tmp/a.jpg"))
Wrote ‘/tmp/a.jpg’ (889 characters)
There are no characters in a JPEG file; it's all bytes.
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- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2017/05/06
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/06
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, npostavs, 2017/05/06
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/06
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, npostavs, 2017/05/06
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Mark Oteiza, 2017/05/08
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/08
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Glenn Morris, 2017/05/08
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/08
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, Mark Oteiza, 2017/05/08
- bug#26796: 26.0.50; (2 characters) is usually wrong, npostavs, 2017/05/09