Re: displaying octal sequences in emacs 21.3.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:35:12 +0200
> 
> >> >  M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET
> >> 
> >> The above is from five years ago. It worked fine up to emacs 21.2.1
> >> (as far as I can go back). Now I am using emacs 21.3.1 or CVS emacs.
> >> What should I do to get the same result?
> >
> > Does the above fail to produce the same effect as 5 years ago?
> 
> That's exactly my problem. Say, I start a fresh emacs --no-init-file.
> Then I load a file that contains some german umlaute (iso-8859-1).
> Then I do
>  M-: (standard-display-default 128 255) RET
> 
> When I do all this with emacs 21.2.1 I see the octal sequences as
> expected. When I do all this with emacs 21.3.1 or CVS emacs, the
> umlaute are still displayed as umlaute.

Then please post your question to emacs-devel@gnu.org, as that's where
questions about the CVS version of Emacs should be sent.