In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> If ispell wants utf-8, it's easy enough to convert each input line to >>> utf-8 and deal with offsets into that in the event of a mispelling; >> >> Or account for byte offsets by (variable) multibyte lenght of each >> character, which Emacs knows. I don't remember for the moment whether >> the multibyte length of the UTF-8 encoding can be gotten at by a Lisp >> program, but if not, we could add some primitive to do that.
> Just encode the line to utf-8, find the correct point in the byte > string, cut off the line there, convert back and check the length of > the string. This works unless you are in the middle of a character. > But it would be much saner if our conversion facilities would preserve > markers (which they don't do right now): encode to utf-8, place a > marker at the right byte offset, undo the conversion. You can encode a text to utf-8, place several makers, encode regions between markers one by one. --- Ken'ichi HANDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
