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Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:45:10 +0200

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:58:34 -0500
> 
> > > If the string holds non-ASCII text, yes.  But not in your case, where the 
> > > ``string'' holds binary data, I think.
> 
> This is only true if binary values between 128 and 256 are represented
> as a single-byte, but that's not the case in multibyte strings.

Most of them, those between 160 and 255 _are_ represented as a single
byte, even in a multibyte string/buffer.  That's the eight-bit-graphic
character set.



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