Re: unicode in emacs 21

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

 >> Internal representation does matter somewhat when it comes to the
 >> handling of malformed UTF-8 sequences. I think it is highly
 >> desireable that the UTF-8 -> emacs internal -> UTF-8 conversion
 >> roundtrip is made 100% binary transparent.

 EZ> I think this already works in Emacs 21.1, even though the
 EZ> internal representation is nowhere near UTF-8.  

It doesn't, e.g. Kuhn's UTF-8-test.utf.

 EZ> If you see something else, please report that as a bug.

Whether or not it's a bug, it isn't worth addressing at present.

I think the current treatment would benefit from using extra private
charsets, as handa once discussed.