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Subject:	Re: GNU Emacs DOS (DJGPP) port converts upper-ASCII characters to ASCII 127
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from Eli Zaretskii > and my previous post >> :

>> I thought the newest DOS version available for download was 20.5

>Emacs 21.1 was released  several months ago.  I didn't release its
>DJGPP port because I wasn't sure it was stable enough (the N.0
>version problem).  However, anyone can download the official GNU
>distribution from ftp.gnu.org and build it with DJGPP.  The DJGPP
>build is supported right out of the box, just read the file INSTALL
>for instructions.

I guess I could, when ready, download Emacs source and build for DOS, Linux and
NetBSD from the same source?  I am also interested in vim updates to see if the
updates fix bugs in the DOS port.  Maybe Lynx too.

>> If you read all your email in DOS Emacs, what do you use to send and receive
>> email?

>Emacs, of course ;-)

I was wondering how Emacs Internet capabilities would work with DOS packet
drivers such as DOSPPPD (EPPPD) and LSPPP.

Besides feedmail and Blat, there is GNUS, and I notice some others in message
header lines.

>> Next time I find a Korean spam, or maybe there's one I missed in prescreening,
>> I'll take a look, just for curiosity, to see what it looks like in DOS Emacs.

>Don't hold your breath: Korean characters can only be seen on Korean
>DOS/Windows systems.

I tried viewing the Korean spams in Emacs with --unibyte switch, just to see
what would show.  Naturally I didn't expect to see actual Korean characters.
I also viewed the HELLO file in Emacs with and without --unibyte, and also in
Tiny Editor (DOS-based and also a 16-bit OS/2 version).  Emacs with --unibyte
showed ^[ in some places, where Tiny Editor showed left-arrow, indicating
ASCII 27, suggesting an ANSI escape sequence.  DOS and OS/2 support ANSI, but
such support is a small shadow of what Linux supports.  Korean spams didn't
contain any left-arrow (ASCII 27) characters, as I saw viewing with Tiny Editor.

Since I might want to view the same file in another environment or
configuration, I don't want Emacs to permanently convert characters in strange
character sets to ASCII 127 and save that way if I edit the file.

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