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Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:26:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87k26jd9ho.fsf@blah.blah> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:131665 Archived-At: Kevin Ryde wrote: > Debian has an easy line in /etc/default/console-setup. The default is > now utf8 but there's lots more. I have it latin1. In that case I stand corrected: some people are stull using non-UTF-8 Linux consoles. I don't know of any convenient programmatic way for Emacs to determine whether the console is in UTF-8 output mode, though. (I can think of complicated ways, involving outputting bytes to the screen and seeing what happens to the cursor position; but this would be destructive to the screen contents.) I agree Emacs shouldn't be changing the mode.