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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Meta characters in strings
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org,  handa@m17n.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:57:40 -0500
> 
> > Is this text from the ELisp manual still correct?
> >       Sometimes key sequences are represented as strings.  When a string is
> >     a key sequence, string elements in the range 128 to 255 represent meta
> >     characters (which are large integers) rather than character
> >     codes in the range 128 to 255.
> 
> Almost: it's only true if the string is unibyte.

That's not what I see:

  (multibyte-char-to-unibyte ?\M-a)
     => wrong-type-argument characterp 134217825

What am I missing?