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

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Package: emacs;

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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #59 received at 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: jasonr <at> gnu.org
Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dmoncayo <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#12055: 24.1.50;
	Characters "á" and "é"
	are	not	correctly displayed on a Windows terminal
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:22:02 +0300

> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:03:43 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: lekktu <at> gmail.com, 12055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> So my current theory is that it is simply wrong to look at
> uChar.UnicodeChar unless we call ReadConsoleInputW, the wide-character
> version of the API.

Forgot to tell an important detail: if I replace the call to
ReadConsoleInput with ReadConsoleInputW, I do see the expected 0x05D0
etc. codes in uChar.UnicodeChar of each event, and Emacs inserts the
correct characters into the buffer.
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