Re: Is there any way to count all latin characters in utf-8 as 1 byte?

2016-03-08 13:34 GMT+03:00 Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov <zyx.vim@gmail.com>:
> 2016-03-08 13:22 GMT+03:00 rameo <raiwil@gmail.com>:
>> Thank you.
>> You're right. It is not a question of decoding a list but decoding a string. Never did anything before with string encoding. I've got it: I cannot use searchpos() to use with python. Searching positions must be done in python (p.e. finditer).
>
> You can use searchpos() with Python. Searchpos searches strings in
> buffer which *is* accessible through Python, vim.current.buffer[linenr
> - 1] or vim.buffers[bufnr][linenr - 1]. Line numbers are returned by
> searchpos.
>
> When using Python-3 though prepare that `vim.current.buffer[linenr -
> 1]` may yield UnicodeDecodeError: because buffer is not guaranteed to
> contain only valid &encoding strings. Using
> `vim.bindeval('getline(%u)' % linenr)` you may get byte string without

Better `vim.Function('getline')(linenr)

> encoding anything and thus without errors.
>
>>
>> BTW I thought that ['encoding'] was a placeholder for utf8/latin1.
>>
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