Re: change radix of displayed quoted chars

[Sebastien Kirche]

Le 26 Nov 2004, Eli Zaretskii s'est exprimé ainsi :

> > I would like to change the displayed value that is still octal.
> 
> Can you tell how you got those characters displayed?  Are they part of
> buffer text, or are they displayed in the echo area?  If the latter,
> what command displayed those octal codes?

These octal values are displayed in the buffer text.

Typically, they  are french accentuated characters pasted  in the iso-8859-1
encoded  buffer that are  mac-roman encoded  when copying  then from  an OSX
application.

I used  to find  the correct  encoding before to  perform a  C-x RET  c then
paste. But  i cannot remember  that value. (mac-roman  seems not to  fix the
problem).

Anyway, for  quick fix as i know  that e.g. 142(mac-roman) ->  é (latin-1) i
would have to M-% C-q 1 4 2 RET é RET !
But for convenience i set read-quoted-char-radix to 10 but as octal is still
displayed i have to convert the value for the C-q insert.

So i wonder if i can modify the display to fit the entry.

Sébastien Kirche