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From: sergio@techunix.BITNET (Sergio Fogel)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: termcap
Message-ID: <6693@techunix.BITNET>
Date: 15 Dec 88 16:13:55 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: Technion - Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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I want to adapt GNU emacs for hebrew editing. However, I have a problem.
I don't want to change the C source of emacs, and emacs-lisp does not
seem to have a way of using new terminal capabilities. (The terminals
that we use have at least two more capabilities: switch to hebrew and
switch to right-to-left)
  The other way would be of course, to write the escape sequence.
Again, I cannot figure out a way of writing an escape sequence directly
to the terminal (even if I run a shell program, the output will go
to a buffer).

  That was the first problem. The second one is how can I write characters
that have the eighth bit on without getting something like \514 on the
screen.

  If someone can help me , maybe we can internationalize emacs and beat
vih (vi for hebrew)

  Sergio Fogel
  Computer Science Dept.
  Technion.