Re: Problem with string replacement

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 28 Oct 2011, at 15:50, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
> Could you please explain, why the internal representation got changed
> here? I would expect that "\" is also representable in 8 bits.

The code to decide this was old ... probably based on original versions from 
when we only had getCString:... without being able to specify an encoding ... 
so it only checked for the possibility of using 8bit characters if the external 
C string encoding is the same as the internal one.  This means the problem 
wouldn't occur on machines where the two encodings are the same (eg my main 
system where I use latin1 encoding).