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Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:38:03 +0900

Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > There are no ``raw bytes'' in a unibyte buffer.  Every byte there is
 > interpreted as a character, and shown as such.  This is the main
 > feature of unibyte buffers; otherwise, who'd want them?

Somebody working with a wire protocol who wants to avoid the overhead
of a multibyte representation and the fragility of writing code to use
Mule coding systems to implement the identity?





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