Re: python-shell-send-region uses wrong encoding?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:53:03 +0100
> From: Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco@gmail.com>
> 
> I would expect python-shell-send-region to be a shortcut for saving the
> region, switching to the shell buffer, yanking and hitting RET.

Emacs can send stuff to an inferior program directly, without going
through a file.

But even if going through a file, why is it wrong to send 2 bytes when
a character's UTF-8 encoding takes those same 2 bytes?