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Don't mention preferred-coding-system. make-char zeroes 8th bit of code args.

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@defun charset-plist charset
@tindex charset-plist
This function returns the charset property list of the character set
@var{charset}.  Although @var{charset} is a symbol, this is not the same
as the property list of that symbol.  Charset properties are used for
special purposes within Emacs; for example,
@code{preferred-coding-system} helps determine which coding system to
use to encode characters in a charset.
@end defun

@node Chars and Bytes
@section Characters and Bytes
@cindex bytes and characters

@example
(make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 72)
     @result{} 2248
@end example
@end defun

@cindex generic characters
  If you call @code{make-char} with no @var{byte-values}, the result is
a @dfn{generic character} which stands for @var{charset}.  A generic

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@defun charset-plist charset
@tindex charset-plist
This function returns the charset property list of the character set
@var{charset}.  Although @var{charset} is a symbol, this is not the same
as the property list of that symbol.  Charset properties are used for
special purposes within Emacs.
@end defun

@node Chars and Bytes
@section Characters and Bytes
@cindex bytes and characters

@example
(make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 72)
     @result{} 2248
@end example

Actually, the eighth bit of both @var{code1} and @var{code2} is zeroed
before they are used to index @var{charset}.  Thus you may use, for
instance, an ISO 8859 character code rather than subtracting 128, as
is necessary to index the corresponding Emacs charset.
@end defun

@cindex generic characters
  If you call @code{make-char} with no @var{byte-values}, the result is
a @dfn{generic character} which stands for @var{charset}.  A generic