Re: displaying 8bit characters octal sequences

[Roland Winkler]

On Mon Oct 11 2004 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> When not in multibyte mode, most likely your umlaute are correctly
>         ^^^
> >> recognized as latin-1 and represented as latin-1 chars internally
> >> (with codepoints around 2200 or 2300 IIRC). Try C-u C-x = on one
> >> of those chars.
> 
> I meant "when in multibyte mode" or "when not in unibyte mode".

Then the codepoints are still much smaller than 2200:

  character: ä (04344, 2276, 0x8e4, U+00E4)
    charset: latin-iso8859-1
             (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
 code point: 100
     syntax: w  which means: word
   category: l:Latin  
buffer code: 0x81 0xE4
  file code: 0xE4 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1 (0xE4)


> Have you done the (standard-display-default 128 255)?
> It works for me:
> 
>   % ~/src/emacs/trunk/src/emacs --unibyte -Q ~/html/2030/tp2/slip.hs
>   M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET
>   M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET

Thank you, that works! Before, I tried either the
standard-display-default or the toggle-enable-multibyte-characters.

Now the only thing I still would like to do is: Display the 8bit
characters as octal sequences without switching to multibyte mode.
(Presently, the above is, however, a reasonable workaround for me.)

Roland