Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 27 2018, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Actually, I don't understand why
>
>     (char-charset (unibyte-char-to-multibyte #x90))
>
> should return `tis620-2533`, since the tis620.2533 standard defines
> a coding-system similar to those of iso8859 and the corresponding chars
> all exist in the BMP of Unicode (the "Thai block" U+0E01 through
> U+0E7F), so I can't see any obvious reason why they should affect the
> 3x3fffxx private space used by Emacs for "eight-bit chars".
> Could it be just a bug?

tis620-2533 is defined as a superset of eight-bit-control, for whatever
reason.  That could be MULE related.  There is also mule-lao with the
same property, but that is marked :supplementary-p.

Andreas.

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