149: How do I make Emacs display 8-bit characters?
  
  There is a patch called the `8-bit ctl-arrow patch' that allows Emacs to
  display characters with codes from 128 to 255.  {The original appears to   +
  have been by Kenneth Cline <cline@proof.ergo.cs.cmu.edu>.} Partially based +
  on Johan Widen's earlier work, Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> has updated this   +
  patch for Emacs 18.58 along with some other 8-bit improvements.            +
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  Anonymous FTP:                                                             +
    ftp.eu.net:gnu/emacs/FP-EightBit.Z                                       +
    ftp.urc.tue.nl:pub/tex/emacs/FP-EightBit                                 +
    cs.purdue.edu:pub/ygz/cemacs.tar.Z:cemacs/8bit-patch-18.57               +
    sics.se:archive/emacs-18.55-8bit-diff                                    +
    laas.laas.fr:pub/emacs/patch-8bit-18.5{5,7}                              +
  
  Via e-mail:
    To: mail-server@sics.se
    body: send emacs-18.55-8bit-diff
  
  Anders Edenbrandt <anderse@dna.lth.se> has produced a more comprehensive
  patch for Emacs 18.57 that allows for 8-bit input and output.
  
  Anonymous FTP:
    sics.se:archive/emacs-8bit-diff-lth
    gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU/DS-emacs-18.57-8bit-diff-lth
  
  The most comprehensive patches for 8-bit output are by Howard Gayle
  (originally for Emacs 18.55.  These patches allow displaying any arbitrary
  string for a given 8-bit character (except TAB and C-j).  Also supported
  is defining the sorting order and the uppercase and lowercase
  translations.  It is reported that the 8-bit character support in Emacs 19
  is largely based on these patches.  Thomas Bellman
  <Bellman@lysator.liu.se> has updated these patches for Emacs 18.57.
  
  Anonymous FTP:
    sics.se:archive/emacs-gayle.tar.Z (patches for 18.55)
    ftp.lysator.liu.se:pub/emacs/gayle-18.57.diff.tar.Z (patches)
    ftp.lysator.liu.se:pub/emacs/emacs-18.57-gayle.tar.Z (patched Emacs)
  
  I am not sure if Epoch can display 8-bit characters as is.  Lucid Emacs    +
  has the ctl-arrow patch installed.  Nemacs displays 8-bit characters, and  +
  it may be useful for displaying the 8-bit ISO-8859 alphabet, but I don't
  know for sure (see question 151).