If you have a terminal that can handle the entire ISO Latin 1 character set, you can arrange to use that character set as follows:
(require 'disp-table) ;; Set char codes 160--255 to display as themselves. ;; (Codes 128--159 are the additional control characters.) (standard-display-8bit 160 255)
If you are editing buffers written in the ISO Latin 1 character set and your terminal doesn't handle anything but ASCII, you can load the file `iso-ascii' to set up a display table that displays the other ISO characters as explanatory sequences of ASCII characters. For example, the character "o with umlaut" displays as `{"o}'.
Some European countries have terminals that don't support ISO Latin 1 but do support the special characters for that country's language. You can define a display table to work one language using such terminals. For an example, see `lisp/iso-swed.el', which handles certain Swedish terminals.
You can load the appropriate display table for your terminal automatically by writing a terminal-specific Lisp file for the terminal type.
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