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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> 
> > When a unibyte string is inserted into a multibyte buffer, Emacs
> > automatically converts 8-bit characters into iso8859-1 characters.
> 
> Oh.  Huh.  Is that a new thing?  How does it know that I want
> iso8859-1 and not anything else?

I guess it is at least as old as the \201 problem. The default coding
system can be customized, but it can not be binary (no decoding).

ShengHuo