>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com>
writes:
Ben> currently we use 32-127 for the values of the chars in the
Ben> iso-8859 charsets. maybe that was needed under old-mule, but
Ben> in unicode-internal charsets can have values in any arbitrary
Ben> interval or rectangle in 256 or 256x256 space. shouldn't we
Ben> use 160-255? this would only matter in the output of
Ben> `split-char'; `make-char' already goes either way.
No. This is gratuitous incompatibility with ISO 2022, legacy X11 font
indexing, and other Emacsen. Why buy trouble changing a public API?
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