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@emph{characters}); but they can appear as part of ``raw bytes''
(@pxref{Explicit Encoding}).

  In a buffer, the buffer-local value of the variable
@code{enable-multibyte-characters} specifies the representation used.
The representation for a string is determined when the string is
constructed and recorded in the string.

@defvar enable-multibyte-characters
@tindex enable-multibyte-characters
This variable specifies the current buffer's text representation.
If it is non-@code{nil}, the buffer contains multibyte text; otherwise,

sequence---disregarding the extra trailing codes.  This is not quite
clean, but raw bytes are used only in limited ways, so as a practical
matter it is not worth the trouble to treat this case differently.

  When a multibyte buffer contains illegitimate byte sequences,
sometimes insertion or deleteion can cause them to coalesce into a
legitimate multibyte character.  For example, suppose the buffer
contains the sequence 129 68 192, 68 being the character @samp{D}.  If
you delete the @samp{D}, the bytes 129 and 192 become adjacent, and thus
become one multibyte character (Latin-1 A with grave accent).  Point
moves to one side or the other of the character, since it cannot be

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@emph{characters}); but they can appear as part of ``raw bytes''
(@pxref{Explicit Encoding}).

  In a buffer, the buffer-local value of the variable
@code{enable-multibyte-characters} specifies the representation used.
The representation for a string is determined and recorded in the string
when the string is constructed.

@defvar enable-multibyte-characters
@tindex enable-multibyte-characters
This variable specifies the current buffer's text representation.
If it is non-@code{nil}, the buffer contains multibyte text; otherwise,

sequence---disregarding the extra trailing codes.  This is not quite
clean, but raw bytes are used only in limited ways, so as a practical
matter it is not worth the trouble to treat this case differently.

  When a multibyte buffer contains illegitimate byte sequences,
sometimes insertion or deletion can cause them to coalesce into a
legitimate multibyte character.  For example, suppose the buffer
contains the sequence 129 68 192, 68 being the character @samp{D}.  If
you delete the @samp{D}, the bytes 129 and 192 become adjacent, and thus
become one multibyte character (Latin-1 A with grave accent).  Point
moves to one side or the other of the character, since it cannot be