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Re: utf-8.el


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: utf-8.el
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:52:14 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

>> 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?

> As far as I remember, that is to distinguish an eight-bit-*
> sequence for an untranslated char from that for an invalid byte.

Hmm... why would it be needed?


        Stefan




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