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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:54:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeacg4856e.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5l0gs9n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:11:04 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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?

Only eight-bit-graphic.

> I'd argue that such chars should always be written as \NNN except for
> the special legacy case of unibyte sessions.

Looking closer the problem is the standard-display-table.  It is set up to
display all characters codes 0xa1-0xff as itself.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17  0:54 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 [this message]
2005-12-07  7:41   ` Kenichi Handa
2005-12-07 12:53     ` Stefan Monnier
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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