Re: word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22

[Jason Rumney]

On Oct 21, 3:28 am, Ralf Fassel <ralf...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Now we still have basically all of our files in unibyte encoding, and
> the show as M\374ller, with the single-byte Umlauts as escape sequences,
> and word-movement stops at the non-ascii char.  I found that if I
> customize the latin1-display Variable, they show up as Umlauts, and
> word-movement also behaves properly.  Is setting latin1-display the
> Right Thing to work with the unibyte files?

No. The correct thing is to use latin-1 instead of unibyte if the
files are indeed latin-1.  But this should happen by default.