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Subject: Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic
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    I think the display table is obsolete only as a means of
    displaying 8-bit characaters in unibyte buffer and
    eight-bit-control/graphic characters.

That seems like a surprising assertion to me.  Is it because
you think people would use a terminal coding system instead?