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Subject: Re: Typing raw bytes
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> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:59:44 +0100
> 
> > Suppose I want to create a file whose contents is a series of certain
> > bytes.  How would I go about that?
> 
> I tried M-x set-buffer-coding-system RET iso-8859-1 RET and it seems to
> work.

iso-8859-1 doesn't cover the entire range of 8-bit bytes from 0x80 to
0xff, so not every byte can be typed with this trick.