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Olivier Galibert <Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr> writes:

> Just a wondering: isn't it possible to have a character which is not
> a possible character and assign it the meaning EOB ? Or would we need
> mule for that ?

That is exactly what `char-before' and `char-after' do with the
nil special return value.  The real problem is perhaps thinking that
`=' is something good to use on characters.  It is not.
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