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Article #27Re: 8-bit chars
From: Tor Lillqvist
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 23:45
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 23:45
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In article <TML.92Mar29103950@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> I wrote: The FAQ only mentions display of 8-bit chars. What about input? Are keymaps still only 128 chars long? IMHO they should be 256 chars, and additionally, the "meta bit" concept should go away. This way 8-bit chars can be made first-class citizens. I found that the contrib/keriven directory in Epoch contains patches imlementing very similar ideas to the above that I have used in Emacs. These patches use a new per-buffer variable, meta-printable, that tell whether the 0240-0377 chars are printable (I overloaded ctl-arrow). The Keriven patches hard-code Latin-1, I use hopefully locale-specific <ctype.h> macros (but I guess many systems still don't have locales or 8-bit <ctype.h> macros, so this is more portable). -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Re: 8-bit chars Message-ID: <TML.92Apr6184545@tiuhti.tik.vtt.fi> Date: 6 Apr 92 23:45:45 GMT References: <TML.92Mar29103950@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 17 In-reply-to: tml@tik.vtt.fi's message of 29 Mar 92 15:39:50 GMT