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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?

> To insert literally 8-bit characters, you have to use some tricks
> like
> 
>  (insert (string-as-multibyte "aksje-\345r"))

That did the trick; thanks.

> XEmacs doesn't have string-as-multibyte, so we'd better define a
> compatible function mm-string-as-multibyte.

Yup.

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