From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: displaying 8bit characters octal sequences Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:51:58 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <16745.47326.410973.405187@tfkp07.physik.uni-erlangen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097448746 2118 80.91.229.6 (10 Oct 2004 22:52:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:52:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 11 00:52:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CGmY4-00055f-00 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:52:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGmey-0005km-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGmes-0005kN-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CGmer-0005k5-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CGmer-0005k2-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.164] (helo=simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CGmXk-0004Aw-Gf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([70.48.80.6]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041010225135.KAFL1635.simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:51:35 -0400 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id E8F88318544; Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:51:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Roland Winkler 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") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28201 >> > 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