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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: very specific question on Ada syntax
Date: 30 Jan 2001 09:47:21 +0100
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> > At least in Emacs, even a wide character consists of a single
> > character. ;-)
> 
> NO! That's wrong. Or more accurately, that would be a nasty
> restriction. You definitely want to be able to edit texts
> using their underlying representation, e.g. seeing ["0041"]
> as those 8 characters, rather than as an upper case A.

Ah, you were talking about the unusual ACVC/GNAT representation of
wide characters using non-wide characters!  Emacs has its own internal
(and different) representation of multibyte characters, and an Emacs
multibyte character is displayed as a single character.