[3455] in RedHat Linux List
Re: ASCII codes in Emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Shutko)
Fri Nov 8 16:34:07 1996
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From: Alan Shutko <ats@wydo125.wustl.edu>
Date: 08 Nov 1996 15:18:45 -0600
In-Reply-To: anthony's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 18:59:16 +0000 (GMT)
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>>>>> "A" == anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk> writes:
A> Many thanks for this reply. Yes, it's now working. I'm still
A> rather surprised that emacs requires all this messing about to make
A> it do its stuff, while a relatively small editor like joe can
A> include all the upper range of ASCII characters with a simple
A> switch (-asis).
It's not that surprising once you realize that joe and Emacs are doing
different things here.
joe -asis tells joe to pass characters with the 8th bit set directly
to the terminal.
Emacs tries harder to make sure you see useful things. Since the
ASCII standard doesn't specify characters over 127, many standards
have developed. The infrastructure Emacs has would allow it to
display a file which assumes Latin-1 on a DOS machine (which uses
different encodings). joe doesn't.
Since most of the time you don't need this translation, joe's solution
is fine for most people. Emacs is there for the rest of them. 8^)
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