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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, after you've encoded, it's no longer an é, but
there's still no actual character > 0x80 in the buffer.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen