Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:17:50 +0100, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) wrote:
>
> I thought it was discussed and it was agreed to display them as
> graphic?  But I agree that it is misleading.
>
> I think the idea was that people who use eight-bit locales expect
> things to be displayed using that charset -- so if a random byte
> comes along, and it happens to match the code for ה in that locale,
> then display that byte as ה.  Regardless of whether the random byte
> is really known to be in iso-8859-1 encoding.  So Emacs would match
> the behavior of /bin/cat in this respect.

I agree. For persons in the ISO-8859-x languages, the 8 bit graphics
is much better than the octal representation. It's like the emails in
quoted-printable are better than base64 - You can read the former as
text even if some characters are non-readable, the latter must be
decoded (correctly!) before it can be read.

Ehud.


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