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Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:53:47 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>> 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