Re: displaying 8bit characters octal sequences

[Stefan]

>> > My default setting for editing files is unibyte with
>> > iso-latin-1. What should I do if in certain buffers I want
>> > everything beyond 7bit asci to be displayed with the
>> > corresponding octal number?
>> 
>> Try this:
>> 
>> 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.
> and it doesn't work for me anymore.

My crystal ball tells me you're using `standard-european-display' and you
think that's enough to be in unibyte mode.  Not so any more.
If you want unibyte mode, you need to ask for it explicitly.


        Stefan