Re: Buffer-local variables affect general-purpose functions

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/27/2014 10:42 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > How could char-equal know whether 224 is a raw byte or the Latin-1
> > >character 'à'?
> The same way it "knows" today.
So (char-equal ?x ?à) would signal an error in a unibyte buffer (because 
?à < 256), and (char-equal ?x ?α) would return nil (because 255 < ?α)? 
That doesn't sound right, but most likely I'm misunderstanding the proposal.