> However it seems that the coding system for keyboard input is latin-1.
> This is a unibyte coding system; why does emacs see a multibyte charater
> when I press é? To what corresponds this 2281?
Inside Emacs, there's no such thing as unibyte characters and
a multibyte characters. There are just characters, which are represented
by integers. When loading/saving a file, characters are decoded/encoded
into sequences of bytes which can be unibyte or multibyte. This same "é"
can be represented in some files with a single byte (e.g. if it's a latin-1
file) or as two bytes (e.g. if it's a utf-8 file), or ...
Stefan
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