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Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: "Copyright \251" on man pages |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:24:30 +0300 |
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 ;-)