Sevenbit-strings only partially respected?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Volodya" == Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> writes:

Volodya> Russian letter 'у' is encoded in UTF8 as 0xD1 0x83, and because
Volodya> of the above code, strings with that letter (and some other
Volodya> letters) get messed up completely.

Volodya> Can we please have that
Volodya> 	(c >= 0x7F && c < 0xA0)
Volodya> clause ripped off?

It would be fine by me.

FWIW I think sevenbit-strings is broken by design.  I think it would be
better if MI declared the host charset to be UTF-8 and stopped using
that setting.

Tom