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Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:54:33 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> The problem is that all non-control characters are
>> written verbatim to the terminal as if it were single-byte encoded.
>
> You mean all the eight-bit-* chars?

Only eight-bit-graphic.

> I'd argue that such chars should always be written as \NNN except for
> the special legacy case of unibyte sessions.

Looking closer the problem is the standard-display-table.  It is set up to
display all characters codes 0xa1-0xff as itself.

Andreas.

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