Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal

[Stefan Monnier]

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

> This was the case that a binary file is read into a unibyte
> buffer, and \240..\377 are displayed as is; i.e. those exact
> bytes are sent to the terminal.  That's happened because
> Emacs setup standard-display-table for Latin-1 even if the
> locale is UTF-8.  I'v just installed a fix not to setup
> standard-display-table in such a case.

> But, it seems that you are proposing not to setup
> standard-display-table even if the locale is Latin-1, right?

Yes, that's indeed what I'm proposing.


        Stefan