Re: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:57:50 -0500
> 
> When encoding text containing non-latin-1 chars with the latin-1
> coding-system, they get output as some kind of escape sequence.

Yes.  IIRC, this is hard-coded in the encoder's C code: it works as if
latin-1 was actually iso-latin-1-wth-esc.

> PS: This manifests itself in the "ispell misalignment" problem because
>     ispell doesn't like these escape sequences.

Indeed; a known problem.