Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 100, Issue 28

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:40:10 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> 
> > These info files contain raw bytes:
> >
> >     * Jan Dj\303\244rv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X 
> > drag-and-drop.
> >
> >     * Torbj\303\266rn Einarsson wrote `f90.el', a mode for Fortran 90 files.
> >    
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the distinction between raw bytes and properly 
> encoded text when talking about file contents.  Those byte values do 
> appear to be the correct UTF-8 encoding if I am not mistaken.

Visit the file and then look at the mode line's encoding mnemonics:
you will see "t" there, meaning that Emacs is not decoding the bytes.
What Juanma meant to say that the above is displayed as octal escapes.