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Re: prettify symbols question


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: prettify symbols question
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:24:30 +0200

> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:53:05 -0500
> 
>    > > So when the buffer-file-coding-system is utf-8-unix everything works
>    > > (where also the sequence is not acted on in comments).  But when the
>    > > buffer is raw-text-unix, it does not work for #o210, but works for say
>    > > #o10.  Some multi-byte thing going on?
>    > 
>    > Yes, raw-text means the buffer includes raw bytes, not characters.
>    > Emacs doesn't do anything useful with raw bytes above 127, and in
>    > particular doesn't interpret them as characters.
> 
>    Btw, in what encoding does \210 stand for GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA?
> 
> The Lisp Machine character set

Emacs doesn't support such an encoding/charset, does it?  Maybe it
should?  Is this character set documented somewhere?  The Lisp Machine
Manual I have seems to say that \210 is BS or Overstrike, not LAMBDA
(https://tumbleweed.nu/r/lm-3/uv/chinual.html#The-Character-Set).



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