Re: utf-8.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Oh, so the elisp code indeed does the same thing.  And that means it's
>> only really used at most once per Emacs session (since after it's
>> executed, the hash-table will be active directly in
>> ccl-decode-mule-utf-8).  Right?

> Right except for the case that a user turn
> utf-translate-cjk-mode off once.

Of course.

> Not acculate.  As I wrote above, (= l 2) implies it's an
> originally invalid byte represented by 2-byte sequence of
> eight-bit-graphic and eight-bit-control char.

Oh, I think I'm beginning to understand: An invalid sequence such as "\201"
is not translated into the single eight-bit-control char \201 but into
a sequence of two eight-bit-* chars: "\302\201".

Hmm... why is that?


        Stefan