Re: inputting characters by hexadigit

[Juri Linkov]

> Stephen> <sigh /> ":-" C-q "376" RET (:-þ) to you.  (It means "d'oh, I
> Stephen> get it now" in Japanese, I don't use it in English.)
>
> OK, no one but some (fellow) old-timers.  :^)
>
> But that doesn't work for me.  I get \376 rather than þ.

It inserts \376 rather than þ due to the following code in `quoted-insert':

    ;; Assume character codes 0240 - 0377 stand for characters in some
    ;; single-byte character set, and convert them to Emacs
    ;; characters.
    (if (and enable-multibyte-characters
             (>= char ?\240)
             (<= char ?\377))
        (setq char (unibyte-char-to-multibyte char)))

I don't know if this code is still valid now?

-- 
Juri Linkov
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