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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Emacs 23 character code space
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> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@kph.uni-mainz.de>
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:29:57 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >       Converting unibyte text to multibyte text leaves @acronym{ASCII} characters
> >     unchanged, and converts 8-bit characters (codes 128 through 159) to
> >     the corresponding representation for multibyte text.
> 
> > Again, by ``8-bit characters'' you mean raw 8-bit bytes here, right?
> 
> Also, shouldn't it be "codes 128 through 255"? Or am I missing
> something?

Yes, you are missing the fact that 160-255 are valid 8859 code
points.  The text to which I referred is talking about 8-bit raw bytes
in the range 128-159, where there are no 8859 code points.