Re: Weird behaviour of emacs

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

David Sumbler wrote:
> If I save the file in emacs-mule format, a lower case 'alpha' appears
> as bytes [92 a6 c1] in case (a), and [9c f4 a7 b1] in case (b).  Other
> characters show similar differences.
>
> I've spent weeks trying to solve this, without success.  Can someone
> point me in the direction of an explanation and/or solution?

The explanation: This a well-known design flaw of Mule in Emacs/XEmacs.
Possibly the solution: The emacs-unicode[-2] branch of the Emacs CVS.

Bruno


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