On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:36:25 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: >> "To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers >> that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings. >> Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length internal representation of >> characters, that stores each character as a sequence of 1 to 5 8-bit >> bytes, depending on the magnitude of its codepoint[1]. For example, any >> ASCII character takes up only 1 byte, a Latin-1 character takes up 2 >> bytes, etc. We call this representation of text multibyte. > > Well, you've just proven what Vim users have always suspected: Emacs > doesn't really exist.
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