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

[Richard Stallman]

    > Why couldn't Emacs have simply displayed the character as "ñ"?

    Because there is no character with a byte representation of 241.  You
    are apparently demanding that Emacs display this "wild byte" as if it
    were really encoded in latin-1.

Latin-1 or Unicode.  The Unicode code point for ñ is 241.  (aref "ñ"
0) returns 241, which is 361 in octal.  So if there is a character
\361, it seems that ought to be the same as ñ.

Basically, it isn't clear that \361 is a byte rather than a character,
and what difference that ought to make, and what you should do
if you want to turn it from a byte into a character.