Re: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars

[Stefan Monnier]

> > So, my conclusion was that writing out those escape
> > sequences not only violates the commonly accepted concept
> > about a coding system,
> What concept do you mean, exactly?

One of the problems is that before the recent change, iso-latin-1 was
sometimes outputting non-latin-1 characters (i.e. bytes between
128 and 160).  That breaks ispell and can break other programs as well.


        Stefan