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25.1.50; Buffer encoding corrupted up by 'make' in shell-mode

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From: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj <at> microsoft.com>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>, "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org"
 <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: 25.1.50; Buffer encoding corrupted up by 'make' in shell-mode
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:07:44 +0000

Thanks John.

It's emacs 24.5.1 (686-pc-mingw32)

It's not 'make' per se; for example 'make --version' or 'make boot' (which does nothing) is fine.  The invocation of make that causes the funny quotes to appear invokes Python, if that helps.

Deeply mysterious.

If I start a new shell, I get quotes looking nice again.  Could something in the shell environment be affected by invoking python?

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: John Wiegley [mailto:jwiegley <at> gmail.com]
| Sent: 19 October 2016 18:33
| To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
| Cc: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj <at> microsoft.com>
| Subject: 25.1.50; Buffer encoding corrupted up by 'make' in shell-mode
| 
| I have a friend who is using Emacs 24.5 on Windows, and who is
| experiencing a strange behavior: Unicode quotes display properly, but
| after *invoking* a 'make' command -- even with its output fully
| redirected to a file -- buffer decoding begins to fail, causing later
| quotes to be display as escape codes.
| 
| I'm attaching a screenshot from his machine, to show the behavior:

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