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

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > > And, in Emacs 20.3 you have to be in a unibyte buffer.
> > 
> > Why?  Isn't it sufficient that all the characters are within [0,255]
> > range?
> 
> No -- é, for instance, is encoded internally as \201\040 (or
> something).

Well yes, but shouldn't the Base64 code proceed character by character
and read the "decoded" characters from the buffer?  That's what the
code in XEmacs does, and to me it seems like the only sensible thing
to do.  Otherwise, you get the \201 junk in otherwise perfectly fine
buffers.