Re: Is it possible to use new Emacsen with non-ASCII?

[Ilya Zakharevich]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Eli Zaretskii 
<eliz@gnu.org>], who wrote in article 
<mailman.11681.1210938659.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
>   emacs -nw -Q
>   M-: (set-locale-environment "koi8-r") RET
> 
> Does this do what you want if you then type Cyrillic text or visit
> files with Cyrillic text encoded in KOI8-R?

In no way.  Not even using C-\ (2-char sequences shown for each
keypress); 8-bit stuff entered from keyboard are interpreted as Meta.

Thanks,
Ilya