Re: displaying 8bit characters octal sequences

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> 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)

Hmm... by code point I meant the 2276 (i.e. the integer used in elisp to
represent the char).  I think the "code point 100" is the code point within
the latin-iso8859-1 charset, rather than within the whole emacs-mule space
of characters.


        Stefan