Text mode Emacs in multibyte terminal

[Andreas Schwab]

When running a text mode Emacs in a multibyte environment (eg. utf8 xterm
with LANG=de_DE.UTF-8), and visiting a binary file (like /bin/true) you
get a garbled screen. The problem is that all non-control characters are
written verbatim to the terminal as if it were single-byte encoded.  Even
setting the buffer to multibyte and the terminal coding system to utf-8
doesn't help.  The only way to get a correct display is to load the file
with a forced coding system of utf-8 or some single-byte coding system.

Andreas.

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