der Mouse (mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU) wrote:

: themselves.)  I once looked at making a GNU emacs display high-half
: characters sanely; I think I managed it, but I don't remember what if
: anything I did with the resulting diffs.

in modern (19.x) emacs you just

(standard-display-european)

in your .emacs 

[or your ..../lisp/site-init.el before make]

Regards,
	Ignatios