Re: unicode in emacs 21

[Dave Love]

>>>>> "MK" == Markus Kuhn <mgk25@cam.ac.uk> writes:

 MK> Using UTF-8 as the internal Emacs encoding is one way of achieving
 MK> continued guaranteed binary transparency, 

I.e., maintain a malformed internal representation??

 MK> coming up with a tricky encoding for malformed UTF-8 sequences is
 MK> another one.

We can maintain arbitrary byte sequences now.  It's not terribly
tricky, just not too robust through the use of the eight-bit-x
charsets.

I don't think it's very important that reading and writing malformed
sequences by utf-8.el isn't always idempotent.  Presumably the three
or four relevant test cases could be addressed in the CCL, but I think
there are better things to spend the time on.