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Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:30:18 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> The actual character in the string is ñ (#x3f).

No: the string does not contain any characters, only bytes, because it's
a unibyte string.  So it contains the byte 241, not the character ñ.
The byte 241 can be inserted in multibyte strings and buffers because it
is also a char of code 4194289 (which gets displayed as \361).


        Stefan




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