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Subject: Re: 23.0.60; end-of-sentence and non-breaking space
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    We need some way of inserting raw 8-bit bytes, because otherwise code
    that encodes and decodes text in Lisp will not work.  For inserting
    characters, we have the \u alternative; but I don't think there's
    alternative for raw bytes except insert \xNN.

Naybe that is a valid reason for the current behavior, but that
doesn't alter the need for the manual to document the behavior.

Meanwhile, the Chinese and Chinese-derived character codes
do not follow Unicode.  So you can't enter them with \u.
What is the way to enter them?