Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:16:24 +0100
> 
> >> > Are you saying that Emacs is converting "?ñ" and "?ä" into the
> >> > wrong integers?
> >
> >> Emacs can convert it into 2 distinct integer representations.  It
> >> decides which one by the context.  And you just happened to give it
> >> the wrong context.
> >
> > OK, I understand that now, thanks.
> 
> Too bad that it's wrong.  ?ñ is the integer that is Emacs' internal
> character code for ñ.

What I wrote was not about ?ñ itself (which is indeed just an integer
241 in Emacs 23), but about the two possibilities to convert it to the
internal representation when it is inserted into a string (or a
buffer, for that matter).  One possibility is to convert it to a UTF-8
encoding of the Latin-1 character ñ, the other is to convert to the
(extended) UTF-8 encoding of a character whose codepoint is 4194289.