jw@sics.se (Johan Widen) (10/29/90)
Archive-name: emacs-8bit/27-Oct-90
Original-posting-by: jw@sics.se (Johan Widen)
Original-subject: Re: how to display 8-bit characters with gnu-emacs?
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Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
>>>>> 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?
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