GNU bug report logs - #2354
23.0.90; Emacs fails to detect utf-8 encoding with language environment Latin-1

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 2497-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 2354-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:21:08 +0200

> From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:46:12 +0100
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, 2497 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de> writes:
> > I'm using the windows port of 23.0.91 on Win2k SP4 and I found that it
> > fails to read utf-8 encoded files correctly. When visiting a file in
> > utf-8 encoding all characters above 255 are screwed up and "C-h C RET"
> > indicates iso-latin1-dos for saving the file. This has not been an
> > issue in 23.0.90.
> 
> Maybe this is a duplicate of what I reported in
> 
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2354
> 
> As I write later in that bug report, I think I could track down this
> issue to the change in revision 1.413 of src/coding.c. Maybe you could
> try if the same applies to your problem.

Should be fixed by this change:

2009-02-28  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz <at> gnu.org>

	* coding.c (detect_coding_charset): Fix change from 2008-10-21.
	Also, check iso-latin-*, not only iso-8859-*.

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