Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>
>       For
>     >> example, the ASCII quote (") can be represented as the single byte 
> 0x22,
>     >> the two byte sequence 0xC0 0xA2, etc.
>
> What does Emacs do now with a file that contains these "overlong"
> sequences?

UTF-8 is defined as not containing "overlong" sequences, so Emacs
decodes them into two raw-byte indicating characters, one indicating
0xC0, one indicating 0xA2.  When encoding, it reassembles them into
0xC0 0xA2.

-- 
David Kastrup