Subject: bug#2354: 23.0.90; Emacs fails to detect utf-8 encoding with language environment Latin-1

From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:45:59 +0100

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:35, David Engster <[email-masked]> wrote:

> You can reproduce it as follows:
>
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x set-language-environment RET Latin-1 RET
> 3. In some buffer write:
>
>  (ucs-insert "2500")
>
> 4. Eval it, so that the unicode character is inserted into the buffer.
> 5. Save the file and choose utf-8 as encoding.
> 6. Kill the buffer.
> 7. Load the file you just saved.
>
> Result: Emacs displays "â\224\200" for the unicode character.

I cannot reproduce it on Windows with the current trunk. The file's
coding is correctly detected as UTF-8.

    Juanma