Re: Typing raw bytes

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Suppose I want to create a file whose contents is a series of certain
> bytes.  How would I go about that?
>
> I tried "M-x hexl-mode RET" in a new buffer, but it evidently doesn't
> let you insert bytes, only edit existing bytes.
>
> Next I tried "C-x RET f raw-text RET" in a new buffer followed by
> "C-q NNN" etc., but the data written thereafter to disk is more bytes
> than I typed, because, I guess, "C-q NNN" inserts windows-1255
> characters (this is on Windows, where keyboard-coding-system is
> windows-1255-unix), and what winds up in the file is their UTF-8
> encoding.

Could you give an example that fails to do what is expected?  I tried
what you referenced above, using "C-x RET f raw-text RET" and C-q insert
bytes.  Saving the file worked just fine, resulting in the expected file
length.  "M-x find-file-literally" on the resulting file also seemed to
work just fine.  Note, however, that I am running Emacs under GNU/Linux.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)