From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:04 -0500 Message-ID: <87d5l0gs9n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132179264 14619 80.91.229.2 (16 Nov 2005 22:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 23:14:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcVVF-000218-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:11:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcVVE-0004Qu-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcVUh-0004L9-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EcVUf-0004KH-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcVUf-0004KB-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EcVUf-0002dg-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.33.38]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20051116221104.LLAU26550.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCDA32FDAA; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:04 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:14:09 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46122 Archived-At: > The problem is that all non-control characters are > written verbatim to the terminal as if it were single-byte encoded. You mean all the eight-bit-* chars? I'd argue that such chars should always be written as \NNN except for the special legacy case of unibyte sessions. Stefan