Re: Emacs 23 character code space

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Also, shouldn't it be "codes 128 through 255"? Or am I missing
>> something?

> Yes, you are missing the fact that 160-255 are valid 8859 code
> points.  The text to which I referred is talking about 8-bit raw bytes
> in the range 128-159, where there are no 8859 code points.

Hm, strictly speaking these _are_ valid code points of ISO-8859-x
(aka ISO_8859-x:1987), only not assigned to displayable characters.

But of course you are right, I was missing the context of the cited
paragraph.

Ulrich