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From: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: how to display 8-bit characters with gnu-emacs?
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.183108.6925@sics.se>
Date: 27 Oct 90 18:31:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: pys@lln-cs.UUCP's message of 26 Oct 90 14:31:01 GMT

>>>>> In article <1001@lln-cs.UUCP>, pys@lln-cs.UUCP (Yves Schobbens) writes:

pys> My problem is that I use text files containing ISO Latin 1 codes
pys> (i.e. ASCII where the codes 160-255 are used for accented characters).
pys> My terminals and windows understand it, but gnu emacs insists on
pys> displaying them as octal sequences.
pys> (internationalized) vi and ed are better in this respect.
pys> How can I change emacs prejudice about what are printable characters?

A patch for emacs-18.55 is available by ftp and mail-server from sics.se.

ftp:
	sics.se (192.16.123.90)
    path: archive/emacs-18.55-8bit-diff

mail-server:
    send an email to	mail-server@sics.se
    with the following line in the body of the letter
	send emacs-18.55-8bit-diff

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