From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:17:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401AD7EC.8020201@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bvbiqr$qrmii$2@ID-183691.news.uni-berlin.de
nospam55 wrote:
> Hi
>
> since I passed to emacs version 21.2.1 on Redhat 8 I noticed that in Man mode
> (or at least after M-x man RET bash RET), looking for hyphens with C-s didn't work;
> same problem even when saving that man page on a file.
>
> After some attempt I saw that with
>
> (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters nil)
>
> an innocent -c became visible as \234\364\370\262c , and so on ;
> Mysterious utf8 proposals arose from attempts to save the manpage...
>
> How can I bring this multibyte manpage into ordinary 7 bit ascii form ?
> How to have manpages under emacs 7 bit by default ?
There was a discussion about this on the bug-gnu-emacs or emacs-devel list,
but I can't find it now to give you a reference. You might try wrapping
LC_ALL=C around the call to the Unix man command, or (setenv "LC_ALL" "C")
around the call to the Emacs man command.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-30 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 17:24 mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions nospam55
2004-01-30 22:17 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-02-01 9:10 ` nospam55
2004-02-02 19:06 ` nospam55
2004-02-02 23:19 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-07 20:36 ` nospam55
2004-02-09 6:21 ` nospam55
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