Re: Meta characters in strings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:57:40 -0500
> 
> > Is this text from the ELisp manual still correct?
> >       Sometimes key sequences are represented as strings.  When a string is
> >     a key sequence, string elements in the range 128 to 255 represent meta
> >     characters (which are large integers) rather than character
> >     codes in the range 128 to 255.
> 
> Almost: it's only true if the string is unibyte.

That's not what I see:

  (multibyte-char-to-unibyte ?\M-a)
     => wrong-type-argument characterp 134217825

What am I missing?