Re: utf8 and emacs text/string multibyte representation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Camm Maguire <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:27:58 -0400
> 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by a "boxed character".  A character in
> > Emacs is just an int.
> >
> 
> Then how do you distinguish integers from characters at the lisp level?

We don't -- except that a valid character's value must fit the Unicode
range.

There's no character data type in Emacs.  (XEmacs does have it.)