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#12055
24.1.50; Characters "á" and "é" are not correctly displayed on a Windows terminal
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Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:21:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.1.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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Message #23 received at 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:49:33 +0200
> Cc: dmoncayo <at> gmail.com, 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Does it help to say
> >
> > C-x RET t cp850 RET
> > C-x RET k cp850 RET
> >
> > before typing those characters? Do they display correctly then, and
> > most importantly, does "C-u C-x =" report in that case the characters
> > you really intended to type?
>
> No. The problem worsens. Now á é are still incorrect, and í ó ú ñ ç
> turn into ¡ ¢ £ ¤‡ \207
What are the codes of these characters, as "C-u C-x =" sees them?
> Note: I see that at some point in the past I surely hit the problem
> and for some reason I failed to report it, because I have this in my
> .emacs:
>
> (unless (or window-system noninteractive
> (not (boundp 'w32-ansi-code-page)))
> (let ((cicp (w32-get-console-codepage))
> (cocp (w32-get-console-output-codepage)))
> (w32-set-console-codepage w32-ansi-code-page)
> (w32-set-console-output-codepage w32-ansi-code-page)
> (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook
> `(lambda ()
> (w32-set-console-codepage ,cicp)
> (w32-set-console-output-codepage ,cocp)))))
>
> though that's irrelevant to the tests above, which are all -Q -nw.
Does the above solve the problem at hand, though? If it does, we can
do that at startup in the -nw session.
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