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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:53:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vey13w7y.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EjtvD-0002NW-00@etlken> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:41:03 +0900")

>>> 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.

> This was the case that a binary file is read into a unibyte
> buffer, and \240..\377 are displayed as is; i.e. those exact
> bytes are sent to the terminal.  That's happened because
> Emacs setup standard-display-table for Latin-1 even if the
> locale is UTF-8.  I'v just installed a fix not to setup
> standard-display-table in such a case.

> But, it seems that you are proposing not to setup
> standard-display-table even if the locale is Latin-1, right?

Yes, that's indeed what I'm proposing.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-07 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-16 21:14 Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal Andreas Schwab
2005-11-16 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-11-17  0:54   ` Andreas Schwab
2005-12-07  7:41   ` Kenichi Handa
2005-12-07 12:53     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-07 13:02       ` Kenichi Handa
2005-12-07 14:47         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-08 19:29     ` Richard M. Stallman

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