GNU bug report logs - #12055
24.1.50; Characters "á" and "é" are not correctly displayed on a Windows terminal

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Message #32 received at 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#12055: Re: Re: bug#12055: 24.1.50; Characters "á" and "é" are not correctly displayed on a Windows terminal
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:42:14 +0200

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> I think we need to establish whether the problem is with input or
> output (or both).  (I think it's with input, but let's make sure.)  If
> you type these same characters using some latin-1 Leim input method
> (e.g., latin-1-postfix), and set the terminal encoding to cp850, do
> all the Latin-1 characters display correctly?

Yes, after

   C-x RET t cp850 RET
   C-\ latin-1-postfix RET

the accented characters can be input with latin-1-postfix and display
correctly (and C-u M-x describe-char confirms they are the expected
chars).

    Juanma

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