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25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>, 26396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26396: 25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:26:01 -0700

Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Debian has an easy line in /etc/default/console-setup.  The default is
> now utf8 but there's lots more.  I have it latin1.

In that case I stand corrected: some people are stull using non-UTF-8 Linux 
consoles. I don't know of any convenient programmatic way for Emacs to determine 
whether the console is in UTF-8 output mode, though. (I can think of complicated 
ways, involving outputting bytes to the screen and seeing what happens to the 
cursor position; but this would be destructive to the screen contents.) I agree 
Emacs shouldn't be changing the mode.

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