Re: 23.0.60; end-of-sentence and non-breaking space

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
> 	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 1726@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:16:21 -0500
> 
>     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.

That was an attempt at explaining the reasons, not telling they don't
need to be documented.

> 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?

The problem at hand exists only for codes that are less than FF hex.