From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display corruption with binary files Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:50:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1164368979.309609.307320@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164663665 12234 80.91.229.2 (27 Nov 2006 21:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 27 22:41:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GooDR-0005xz-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GooDQ-0003Jk-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:40:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:50:15 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zsCfkYlTKlL+pdDRgUIuWL97BLM= Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.26.177 Original-X-Trace: sv3-bdYfNuvIgGHYAN2I5GLC8hsy7QXMHVgSzR1dtD2U5oIIcA6izwjujBDnZId1pTn90ujZuUisH9DX+0t!zUS0YkTEAhS6wOVcgdolApJ+j3ExLMYunLQ6RuhvR8GIgM24wMlR0dCCqMxLDUkY7Ywjk5mTpKBb!WneaU6NcXSdIVcTvSw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143432 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39048 Archived-At: > Yes, it's a known problem that the Unix terminal interprets certain > sequences of characters as commands. I'm not sure Emacs can do > anything to solve this, but suggestions are welcome. IIRC the problem was reported and fixed in Emacs-CVS a few months ago (eight-bit-* chars were sent as raw uninterpreted bytes to the terminal without going through coding-system: this was OK for eight bit encodings, but not with utf-8). Stefan