131: How do I make Emacs display 8-bit characters?

  Emacs 19 has built-in support for 8-bit characters.  Here is an excerpt
  from the "European Display" page of the on-line manual:

    Some European languages use accented letters and other special symbols.
    The ISO 8859 Latin-1 character set defines character codes for many
    European languages in the range 160 to 255.

    Emacs can display those characters according to Latin-1, provided the
    terminal or font in use supports them.  The "M-x
    standard-display-european" command toggles European character display
    mode.  With a numeric argument, "M-x standard-display-european" enables
    European character display if and only if the argument is positive.

    Some operating systems let you specify the language you are using by
    setting a locale.  Emacs handles one common special case of this: if
    your locale name for character types contains the string "8859-1" or
    "88591", Emacs automatically enables European character display mode
    when it starts up.