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From: gunnar@hafro.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Emacs - 8 bits?
Message-ID: <342@hafro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 16:13:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: hafro.342
Posted: Wed Apr 29 16:13:19 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 06:48:13 EDT
References: <2393@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1772@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Reply-To: gunnar@hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson)
Organization: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik
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In article <1772@dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>In article <2393@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> porr@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (Greg Porr) writes:
>> I've used emacs only minimally, but I've been asked if emacs can, unlike
>> vi, handle 8 bit characters (for International users).  I perused some of
>> the source and it appeared so, but I'd like to be sure.  Thanks!
>
>You didn't mention which of the ten thousand emacs variant's you were using.
>I do know that microGnuEmacs does read all 8 bits (it bit me, because at DG
>terminals are usually set by operations to be 7 bit + mark parity [8th bit
>set high always]).

I posted a summary a month or two ago of what the various emacses do
and don't do to the 8th bit.  Not a single one is really ready as it
comes.  However, the changes to the above MicroGnuEmacs are in only
one or two lines (one needs to set the default bindings of the
'meta-' keys to self-insert and compile without the DO_METAKEY
option).  MicroEmacs should be fairly easy too.

I'd presume the question was about GNU Emacs, in which case the
answer is that one needs to do quite a bit of work.

If you would like the summary or further info, I can mail it to you.

Gunnar
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Gunnar Stefansson                       {mcvax,enea}!hafro!gunnar 
Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik    gunnar@hafro.UUCP