Re: raw-byte and char-table

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, MON KEY <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Convert the byte BYTE to a character representing BYTE.
> > ...
>>> Likewise multibyte-char-to-unibyte => char-to-byte:
> >
> > Those names seem a bit more clear to me as well.
> >

> Yes. Me too.

> Is there some reason why these names might be confusing or otherwise
> add to the existing confusion?

Until Emacs 22, we treated a 8-bit byte as a character of the
current unibyte charset.  So, in Latin-1 env.,
  (unibyte-char-to-multibyte #xC0) => LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
but in Cyrillic-KO8 env., 
  (unibyte-char-to-multibyte #xC0) => CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YU

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Kenichi Handa
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