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Diffstat (limited to 'src/coding.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/coding.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/coding.c b/src/coding.c index d9964908dce..35d6be470c8 100644 --- a/src/coding.c +++ b/src/coding.c @@ -9415,6 +9415,13 @@ code_convert_region (Lisp_Object start, Lisp_Object end, DEFUN ("decode-coding-region", Fdecode_coding_region, Sdecode_coding_region, 3, 4, "r\nzCoding system: ", doc: /* Decode the current region from the specified coding system. + +What's meant by \"decoding\" is transforming bytes into text +(characters). If, for instance, you have a region that contains data +that represents the two bytes #xc2 #xa9, after calling this function +with the utf-8 coding system, the region will contain the single +character ?\\N{COPYRIGHT SIGN}. + When called from a program, takes four arguments: START, END, CODING-SYSTEM, and DESTINATION. START and END are buffer positions. @@ -9438,6 +9445,13 @@ not fully specified.) */) DEFUN ("encode-coding-region", Fencode_coding_region, Sencode_coding_region, 3, 4, "r\nzCoding system: ", doc: /* Encode the current region by specified coding system. + +What's meant by \"encoding\" is transforming textual data (characters) +into bytes. If, for instance, you have a region that contains the +single character ?\\N{COPYRIGHT SIGN}, after calling this function with +the utf-8 coding system, the data in the region will represent the two +bytes #xc2 #xa9. + When called from a program, takes four arguments: START, END, CODING-SYSTEM and DESTINATION. START and END are buffer positions. |