GNU bug report logs - #18760
24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Ljung <lars <at> matholka.se>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ljung <lars <at> matholka.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18760 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18760: 24.4; Encoding problem in about-emacs
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:24:54 +0200

Den 2014-10-18 13:13, Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 11:54:36 +0200
>> From: Lars Ljung <lars <at> matholka.se>
>>
>> The title of the tutorial is translated in the start-up screen. In the
>> case of Windows XP with a Swedish locale the title is in UTF-8 but the
>> buffer is in iso-8859-1. So "ä" in "användarhandledning" is shown as "ä".
> 
> Is that a GUI session or a -nw text-mode session?
> 

Only in the GUI. I looked at it a bit and my guess is that the encoding
is not properly detected when extracting the title using
(with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents ... when defining
fancy-startup-text.

/Lars
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