lum@osupyr.UUCP (02/08/87)
In article <7591@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> [L]et's add a _real_ META (ie, 8th bit set) key ..., for Emacs. > >Let us not forget that the days of real 8-bit character sets are almost >upon us. The ISO Latin set, now an ANSI standard as well, will solve a >lot of problems, and software design which precludes its use (e.g. taking >the 8th bit for something else) is extremely shortsighted. Agreed, but super-ASCII has been in use for quite awhile by GNU Emacs (8-bit) and for more than a decade by its predecessor ITS/Twenex Emacs (9-bit). The proper solution is to provide a keyboard that produces a full character set, ASCII, ISO Latin, etc, and allows setting the "bucky bits" above those actually used for character representation. For example, a 10-bit ISO Latin keyboard with META and TOP bucky bits. Of course, most machinery won't deal with 10-bit bytes yet. Lum Johnson lum@ohio-state.arpa lum@osu-eddie.uucp ..!cbosgd!osu-eddie[!osupyr]!lum