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Re: coding system


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: coding system
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:50:40 +0200

> From: "B.T. Raven" <ejmn@cpinternet.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:56:37 -0600
> 
> That "or ..." is pregnant with meaning.  It seems that the same
> character can be represented in the same buffer itself with 3 or more
> different byte sequences.

That is precisely so: Emacs 21.x treats Latin-N character sets as
disjoint, so they are represented by different codes internally.

The CVS version introduces features (unification on en- and decoding)
that make this distinction less visible, and work is under way on a
Unicode-based Emacs where the distinction will go away entirely.




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