Re: catting random bytes causes character craziness

Jamie> This is clearly a bug: no matter what binary characters got Jamie> dumped into my shell buffer, they should damned well not be Jamie> being displayed as Hebrew, even if I *did* have those fonts Jamie> installed. There's no such thing as a binary character. All octets are binary; the character interpretation is up to the user. Eg, suppose you were catting a text file in Tel Aviv. Think about it; this bug can't be fixed for all the people all the time. You might try yelling at your vendor to provide non-mule packages. Debian does. I think Mandrake and SuSE do, too. As a workaround, try hanging (lambda () (set-process-coding-system (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)) 'binary 'binary)) on shell-mode-hook or comint-mode-hook. I'll figure out how to make sure there's a sane default for 21.4.11 (alas, I just shipped 21.4.10). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.