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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: termcap
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Date: 15 Dec 88 21:22:44 GMT
References: <6693@techunix.BITNET>
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In-reply-to: sergio@techunix.BITNET (Sergio Fogel)

In article <6693@techunix.BITNET>, sergio@techunix (Sergio Fogel) writes:
>I want to adapt GNU emacs for hebrew editing. [...]
>  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).

You want send-string-to-terminal:

  Send STRING to the terminal without alteration.
  Control characters in STRING will have terminal-dependent effects.

>  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.

The list went around on this one a while back.  Maybe someone has a
terse summary of the discussion?  This is part of a very hard problem,
and the C standards groups is working towards capturing character-set
properties for non-English properly (think about toupper(),
isletter(), etc.).
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/jr
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