Re: Is it possible to use new Emacsen with non-ASCII?

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Eli Zaretskii 
<eliz@gnu.org>], who wrote in article 
<mailman.11644.1210878709.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
> You need to decide whether you want Emacs or cat.  Emacs is not cat,
> and cannot be convinced to work like cat.

Well, with --unibyte it does act as cat.  What was it exactly which
you tried to convey?

> Let Emacs work like it was designed to: decode characters when you
> visit a file and encode them back when it displays them on the screen.
> Try it, it really works.

Thanks.  I did.  It did not.

Yours,
Ilya