bug#44486: 27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> 0 is different: it says to obey the value of
> inhibit-null-byte-detection resp. inhibit-iso-escape-detection.  t
> means inhibit the detection unconditionally, which is not what we
> want.
>
> (We could use any non-nil, non-t value, of course; I've chosen to use
> zero for consistency with what we do for 'undecided', see coding.c.)

I see.  Perhaps the difference between the various non-nil values should
be mentioned in the doc strings of the two variables?  They only mention
nil/non-nil now, as far as I can see.

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