Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 10:03:37 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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> Emacs normally recognizes UTF-8 text and decodes it.  If some text
> isn't proper UTF-8, it may use raw bytes for that text.  But when does
> it do this for text that can be decoded as UTF-8?  I don't think
> that ever happens.

It could happen if the user instructed Emacs to decode the text as
something else, like Latin-1.  But then I think it's the user's
responsibility.