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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:25:50 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: David Kastrup <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Why couldn't Emacs have simply displayed the character as "ñ"?

Because Emacs does not interpret raw bytes as human-readable
characters, by design.

You could set unibyte-display-via-language-environment to get it
displayed as "ñ", but that's only a display setting, it doesn't change
the basic fact that Emacs is _not_ treating 241 in a unibyte string as
a character.