Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!lln-cs!pys
From: pys@lln-cs.UUCP (Yves Schobbens)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: how to display 8-bit characters with gnu-emacs?
Summary: is gnu-emacs able to display accented characters?
Keywords: accent, ISO Latin 1, gnu emacs, display, 8 bits
Message-ID: <1001@lln-cs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 90 14:31:01 GMT
Reply-To: pys@lln-cs.UUCP ()
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Computer Sc. Depart. University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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My problem is that I use text files containing ISO Latin 1 codes
(i.e. ASCII where the codes 160-255 are used for accented characters).
My terminals and windows understand it, but gnu emacs insists on
displaying them as octal sequences.
(internationalized) vi and ed are better in this respect.
How can I change emacs prejudice about what are printable characters?


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Pierre-Yves Schobbens

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