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From: pausv@sssab.se (Paul Svensson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: 8 bit characters
Summary: How do I make emacs accept 8 bit characters ?
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.172226.5865@sssab.se>
Date: 10 Sep 89 17:22:26 GMT
Organization: Scandinavian System Support AB (3S AB)
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I want to use emacs with 8-bit characters, but I cannot find out how to do
it.  If I don't set the meta-flag, the eighth bit is simply stripped off.
If I set the meta-flag, I have to use ^Q get 8-bit characters in, and then,
when I whip up a macro to insert them properly, the <ESC> prefix commands
stops working, inserting funny characters also.  And all the time emacs
displays the 8-bit characters as \217 and \242 and such.

My reading of the documentation does not offer any sulution, in fact it
leads me to the conclusion that emacs is 7-bit sick.  PLEASE someone tell
me that this is not so, and flame me about overlooking the obvoius solution,
or I will seriously consider converting to (shudder) vi.

			/Paul

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