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24.1; rcirc-send-message doesn't take multibyte into account.

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Message #31 received at 12051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: b4283 <at> bephor.org, 12051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12051: 24.1;
	rcirc-send-message doesn't take multibyte into account.
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:59:36 +0300

> From:  Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: Li Ian-Xue <b4283 <at> bephor.org>,  12051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:10:45 +0800
> 
> On 2012-08-15 10:57 +0800, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > You can always stop at known characters, like whitespace.
> >
> > Anyway, another way is simply to assume the worst possible expansion
> > ratio, and estimate the byte count before encoding.
> 
> I make a small optimisation that calls encode-coding-region char by
> char. Comments?

I think it's terribly inefficient to encode the string one character
at a time.

Again, assuming the worst expansion is IMO much better, and will not
force you to encode in a loop.  But that's me.

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