From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: displaying 8bit characters octal sequences
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:51:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1655ijij2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16745.47326.410973.405187@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:34:06 +0200")
>> > My default setting for editing files is unibyte with
>> > iso-latin-1. What should I do if in certain buffers I want
>> > everything beyond 7bit asci to be displayed with the
>> > corresponding octal number?
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET
> The above is from five years ago. It worked fine up to emacs 21.2.1
> (as far as I can go back). Now I am using emacs 21.3.1 or CVS emacs.
> and it doesn't work for me anymore.
My crystal ball tells me you're using `standard-european-display' and you
think that's enough to be in unibyte mode. Not so any more.
If you want unibyte mode, you need to ask for it explicitly.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-10 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-10 22:34 displaying 8bit characters octal sequences Roland Winkler
2004-10-10 22:51 ` Stefan [this message]
2004-10-10 23:09 ` Roland Winkler
2004-10-11 14:12 ` Stefan
2004-10-11 14:28 ` Roland Winkler
2004-10-11 14:45 ` Stefan
2004-10-11 17:58 ` Roland Winkler
2004-10-11 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-11 20:02 ` Roland Winkler
2004-10-12 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-11 19:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-11 14:55 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-12 7:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2004-10-13 13:44 ` Roland Winkler
2004-10-12 8:57 ` Richard Stallman
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