Re: [Gcl-devel] utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks so much for the feedback!  Almost done --

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Camm Maguire <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:13:20 -0400
>> 
>> >> Does every string access in emacs proceed through the utf8 decoder?
>> >
>> > If you need to look at the character, yes.  E.g., if you need some
>> > property of the character, you need to index the appropriate table by
>> > that character's codepoint.  But in most operations that is not
>> > needed.  You just need to recognize several specific characters, like
>> > the null character, the slash, etc., most of which are ASCII.
>> >
>> 
>> Do you allocate a fresh boxed character on each aref, or output an
>> integer referring to a fixed ~2^22 sized table?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by a "boxed character".  A character in
> Emacs is just an int.
>

Then how do you distinguish integers from characters at the lisp level?

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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