GNU bug report logs - #17575
24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 03:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.91

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:24:06 -0500

etc/NEWS contains the line

** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

Yet for me, emacs -Q uses the wrong coding system, so that I get

** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

It seems that etc/NEWS should use a file-local variable to specify
its coding system.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2014-05-12 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix

Major mode: Outline
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 78 days ago.

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