Re: charprop.el and uni-*.el

[Jason Rumney]

Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Should the uni-*.el files be checked in as binary? They don't appear to 
> > be utf-8 as the coding tag at the bottom claims.
> >     
>
> No, they encode (a kind of) binary data using Unicode
> character codes.  I used that format to minimize the file
> sizes.
>   

Binary data is still binary data after it has been utf-8 encoded. And 
wouldn't encoding it make the file size bigger, as now all bytes with 
values in the 128-255 range take up two bytes instead of one?