Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       For
>     >> example, the ASCII quote (") can be represented as the single byte 
> 0x22,
>     >> the two byte sequence 0xC0 0xA2, etc.
>
> What does Emacs do now with a file that contains these "overlong"
> sequences?

It reads it with them as individual eight-bit chars, if you force it to
be decoded as utf-8.

Andreas.

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