[comp.emacs] how to display 8-bit characters with gnu-emacs?

pys@lln-cs.UUCP (Yves Schobbens) (10/26/90)

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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jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) (10/28/90)

>>>>> 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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