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Subject: Re: `.newsrc.eld' saves chinese group name in wrong coding
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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
> 	yamaoka@jpl.org, id.brep@gmail.com, ding@gnus.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:33:35 -0400
> 
>     > There is a big difference between unibyte strings and encoded unibyte
>     > strings.
> 
>     What is that difference?
> 
> You can represent one of Emacs' supported Latin alphabets in
> (unencoded) unibyte strings, and Emacs will automatically convert to
> and from multibyte.

AFAIK, Latin-N unibyte strings and iso-8859-N text encoded in Latin-N
use the same numerical codes for the same characters, so they are
indistinguishable.

Handa-san, am I right?