Re: How to make hidden special characters (non-ascii) to be seen again?

[Juho Snellman <jsnell@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:52:22AM +0300, "??????? ?????"  wrote:
> There was a very useful and nice feature in jed:
> it could show special characters (0x00 -- 0x1F and some above 0x80)
> as ^<LETTER>.
> 
> But in a new version this feature disappeared :(
> May be it is not jed's fault, but system dependent (we also have moved 
> from RH6.1 to RH9.0).

It's caused by the utf-8 patch to slang that most Linux distributers
seem to unfortunately be applying these days. Just recompile a fresh
slang + jed, and things should work the way they used to. (You won't
get any utf-8 support, though.)

-- 
Juho Snellman

--------------------------
To unsubscribe send email to <jed-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx> with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body.
Need help? Email <jed-users-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx>.