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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: 8 bit characters
Message-ID: <812@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 12 Sep 89 07:50:49 GMT
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In article <37888@bu-cs.BU.EDU> jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:

>Emacs handles editing of files with high-bit-set, NUL, and control
>characters with ease.  However, Emacs does assume that its input and
>output symbols are the plain ASCII character set and nothing else.  I
>understand that there is a Japanese version of GNU Emacs that corrects
>this weakness for the display of Japanese writing.  Maybe something
>similar has been done for a European character set that could be adapted
>to your situation.

I think that I've seen somewhere, that version 19 of Emacs will handle
true 8-bit characters (a la ISO 8859) with ease, without the need to
prefix them in some funny way just to enter an ordinary character. If
not, I might consider downgrading to the latest release of Emacs from
Uniplex, which does these things.
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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
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