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Re: Typing raw bytes


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Typing raw bytes
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:02:27 +0200

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:38:01 +0100
> 
> I inserted ISO8859-1 characters with the knowledge that ISO8859-1 is a
> one-to-one mapping from Unicode codepoints to bytes.  This is
> effectively how the Unicode codepoints U+0000 to U+00FF are defined, so
> I expect that that coding system should work that way.

But Emacs doesn't represent characters as Unicode code points
internally.  It uses a variant of UTF-8, where all codes above U+007F
are represented by more than one byte.



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