Re: Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> But, it seems that you are proposing not to setup
>>> standard-display-table even if the locale is Latin-1, right?
>> Yes, that's indeed what I'm proposing.
> As I'm not a Latin-X user, I'm not sure about it, but I've
> thought that a Latin-1 user expects to see \240..\377 of a
> unibyte buffer (for instance the case of visiting a binary
> file) by Latin-1 characters.  If that's not true anymore, I
> agree with such a change, but of course, after the release.

It's never been true for me.  When visiting a binary file, I don't expect
to see much of anything, really, other than hopefully some recognizable
ASCII somewhere.

But I don't claim to be representative of all latin-1 users.


        Stefan