Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:47:09 +0000
> Cc: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>,
>       Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Tangentally, for those that like the unibyte/multibyte distinction, to my
> knowledge the editor does not have any way of representing “an octet with
> numeric value < #x7f to be treated with byte semantics, not character
> semantics”

Emacs 23 does have a way of representing raw bytes, and it
distinguishes between them and characters.  See the ELisp manual (I
mentioned the node earlier in this thread).