From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:17:16 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <401AD7EC.8020201@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075501958 13473 80.91.224.253 (30 Jan 2004 22:32:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:32:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 30 23:32:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmhBj-0000Xa-00 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:32:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AmhAx-0002zC-Rg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:31:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1075501028 28322618 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120588 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16535 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