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#17575
24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
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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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#17575: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
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Thanks, I fixed that in emacs-24 bzr 117150, along with four other
instances of the same problem that I found, and am marking this bug as done.
I didn't adjust files taken from Gnulib, though, as it's not worth the
hassle of maintaining a separate version of these files just for this
reason. (The Gnulib folks switched to UTF-8 source code long ago and
aren't looking back.) So you'll still see a problem with reading
Andreas Grünbacher's name in the comments in lib/qcopy-acl.c,
lib/acl-internal.h, and lib/file-has-acl.c.
Also, there are two tiny ASCII-only files (doc/misc/gnus-overrides.texi,
nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/PkgInfo) which Emacs in a Latin-9
locale for some reason decides should be iso-latin-9 rather than utf-8.
I dunno why that would be, but I assume you won't be editing those
files so it should be OK.
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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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