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#24637
25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer
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Reported by: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:14:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 25.1
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Your bug report
#24637: 25.1; non-ascii chars fail to render in Info buffer
which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.
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Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
> Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 06:18:02PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> > From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
>>> > Cc: ivan <ivan.brennan <at> gmail.com>, 24637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>> > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:27:56 +0000
>>> >
>>> > > Does anyone else see this on OS X (or on any other OS)?
>>> >
>>> > Just checked and I get the incorrect behaviour with the upper-case UTF-8
>>> > in emacs.info's "Local Variables:" section.
>>>
>>> Do you also have an old Texinfo?
>>
>> Yup, that’s it exactly. macOS 10.12 comes with Texinfo 4.8.
>>
>> As far as I can tell ./configure is looking for any version above 4.6.
>> I guess this is wrong, or the macOS version is broken.
>>
>> For reference, I used homebrew to install 6.3 and this fixed it:
>>
>> brew install texinfo
>> brew link texinfo --force
>>
>> There are some warnings about linking in the upgraded version, but I
>> can’t really see what difference it makes, and I’m not sure whether
>> people building Emacs within homebrew itself will need to perform that
>> step.
>
> If I read this correctly, the problem is with an old version of
> texinfo (perhaps only on macOS). If that is the case, this is not a
> bug in Emacs and should be closed?
More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug. If this is still an issue, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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While reading the Emacs manual in Emacs using Info-mode, I found that
non-ascii characters are displayed as octal escape sequences rather than
rendered as glyphs. To repro:
- start emacs with -Q
- open the emacs manual and start a search: C-h r s
- search for a section with non-ascii chars: it requotes text typed<return>
- the found sentence reads:
> For example, it requotes text typed `like this' to text \342\200\230like
this\342\200\231.
- if correctly rendered, it would read:
> For example, it requotes text typed `like this' to text ‘like this’.
If I select the text and write the region to a file, I can open that file
and Emacs renders it correctly. I tried to remedy this by adding the
following to my init file (and commenting out the rest of the file):
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
The only effect this had was to change the default coding system for new
files from utf-8-unix to utf-8. Running `describe-coding` in the Info
buffer reported
> Coding system for saving this buffer: t -- raw-text-unix
both before and after adding the above settings.
I also tried both gui and terminal, with and without the above settings,
and saw the octal escape sequences in all cases.
My Emacs version and configuration:
In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit
1404.47)
of 2016-09-21 built on MachineCode.local
Windowing system distributor 'Apple Inc.', version 10.11.6
Configured using:
'configure --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp
--infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.1-z-mac-6.0/share/info/emacs
--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.1-z-mac-6.0 --with-mac
--enable-mac-app=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-mac/emacs-25.1-z-mac-6.0'
Configured features:
NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Info
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mac-mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
buffer-read-only: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. [2 times]
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail
rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns help-mode cl-loaddefs pcase
cl-lib mail-prsvr mail-utils jka-compr info easymenu mule-util time-date
tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel mac-win term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt
fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register
page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock
font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice
loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote kqueue mac multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 113689 6270)
(symbols 48 20181 0)
(miscs 40 73 185)
(strings 32 19396 4598)
(string-bytes 1 510009)
(vectors 16 12204)
(vector-slots 8 426977 6597)
(floats 8 169 118)
(intervals 56 4622 16)
(buffers 976 19))
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