Subject: Re: bug#16048: 24.3.50; String compare surprise

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:07:59 +0100

[email-masked] writes:

> The following form evals to nil:
>
>   (string-equal "\377" "ÿ")

"\377" is a unibyte string.  When converted to multibyte it yields
"\x3fffff".

Andreas.

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