Re: Emacs 23 character code space

[Stefan Monnier]

> Also, shouldn't it be "codes 128 through 255"? Or am I missing
> something?

You're missing the fact that codes 128-255 can be one of two different
things, depending on context:
- for "unibyte chars", it's an "eight-bit" char (a byte)
- for "multibyte chars", it's a latin-1 char (not a byte).

See multibyte-char-to-unibyte and unibyte-char-to-multibyte.


        Stefan