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Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

[...]

> Or is there a (string-as-multibyte-foo "1234\201\337ABCD") that return
> a multibyte string that will display as 1234\201ßABCD?  Isn't that
> what we need?

string-as-multibyte is something acting like type casting instead of
literally converting.  

We need something convert it to 8bit multibyte string
"1234\201\337ABCD", not "1234\201ßABCD" which contains
latin-iso8859-1.

[...]

> First case: `1234\201\201ßABCD' Second case: `1234\201ßABCD'. In echo
> area.  A freshly started emacs/gnus display one less \201 in both
> cases.  In the *scratch* buffer I always seem to get `1234\201ßABCD'
> and `1234ßABCD' respectively.

There could be a bug somewhere.

ShengHuo