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Re: Unibyte characters
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Unibyte characters |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:18:41 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> But I think this is inaccurate and even misleading. For starters,
> unibyte buffers and strings can contain DBCS characters and UTF-8
> encoded text
It doesn't seem inaccurate or misleading -- it's talking about
characters as emacs (and the user, if the buffer is displayed) sees
them. Text in a unibyte buffer is simply a bunch of binary characters
0-255; you can interpret them however you want, of course, but that's
not how emacs sees it.
-Miles
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Re: Unibyte characters, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/10/31