*** The function forward-char moves over characters, and therefore<BR>
(forward-char 1) may increase point by more than 1 if it moves over a
multibyte character.  Likewise, delete-char always deletes a
character, which may be more than one buffer position.
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This means that some Lisp programs, which assume that a character is
always one buffer position, need to be changed.
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However, all ASCII characters are always one buffer position.
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