Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 10 Jun 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:

> address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:
> >        Copyright \251 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> Character octal 0251 is the ISO-LATIN-1 copyright symbol (a C in a
> circle).  Try `M-x standard-display-european' in emacs to see it as a
> character (assuming your emacs is using an iso-latin-1 font).

standard-display-european is a deprecated function and has a few nasty
side effects that you'd want to avoid.  Emacs 20.x and later should
display non-ASCII characters correctly by default.

Whether pure-ASCII man pages should include non-ASCII characters is
another matter ;-)