Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200
> From: Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden>
> 
> Is the following a feature or a bug?
> 
>     $ emacs -Q
>     M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET C-q 240 RET C-q 255 RET
> 
> The characters are displayed as "_-" (approximately).
> 
> Shouldn't they be displayed as "\240\255", considering that these are
> raw bytes with no specific meaning?

There are no ``raw bytes'' in a unibyte buffer.  Every byte there is
interpreted as a character, and shown as such.  This is the main
feature of unibyte buffers; otherwise, who'd want them?