Re: mule : multibyte to 7 bit conversions

[Kevin Rodgers]

nospam55 wrote:

> Hi
>
> since I passed to emacs version 21.2.1 on Redhat 8  I noticed that in Man mode 
> (or at least after M-x man RET bash RET), looking for hyphens with C-s didn't work; 
> same problem even  when saving that man page on a file.
>
> After some attempt I saw that with 
>
>     (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters nil)
>
> an innocent  -c  became visible as \234\364\370\262c  , and so on ; 
> Mysterious utf8 proposals arose from attempts to save the manpage...
>
> How can I bring this multibyte manpage into ordinary 7 bit ascii form ?
> How to have manpages under emacs 7 bit by default ?

There was a discussion about this on the bug-gnu-emacs or emacs-devel list,
but I can't find it now to give you a reference.  You might try wrapping
LC_ALL=C around the call to the Unix man command, or (setenv "LC_ALL" "C")
around the call to the Emacs man command.

--
Kevin Rodgers