Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Now I am venturing into the realm of pure luxury: is there a way to >> have the eight-bit-* chars display as octal escapes always even when >> real latin1 characters (inserted by a process with process-coding >> latin1) get displayed transparently? I seem to remember that in those >> "crazy" utf-8 buffers I had, those that were created by decoding >> raw-text, there appeared latin-1 characters like the infamous à >> character. But maybe I am mistaken about that. I'll just experiment >> with the stuff a bit and probably use C-x = a lot. > > The eight-bit-* chars are different characters than the latin1 ones, so they > can indeed be displayed differently. The eight-bit-* chars have internal > codes 128-255, so you can use slots 128-255 of char tables to control how > they're displayed. If the display-table says "nil" for one of them it'll be > displayed as \NNN. IIRC in many normal startup situations, those slots are > set so as to display latin-1 chars.
That explains that I remembered seeing Latin-1 (which is my normal setup). That I was right now seeing the _expected_ \xxx sequences is quite likely entirely the fault of my X11 environment which for some completely unfathomable reason has LC_CTYPE=C set. I suspect a recent change to fluxbox, but have yet to find the culprit. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
