Re: eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode

[Richard Stallman]

    > You seem to be thinking of reading files.  I'm talking about handling
    > keyboard input.  If it was handled and accumulated as multibyte,
    > but then you want to get the result that you'd have got if it had
    > been inserted in a unibyte buffer, the existing string-make-unibyte
    > seems to be the right thing to convert.

    It's actually not the case.  If your keyboard is using say utf-8 encoding

As you might guess, I'm not talking about that case.
I'm talking about keyboards that send unibyte text,
such as perhaps Latin-1.