GNU bug report logs - #2497
23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: uwe.siart <at> tum.de

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 2354

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>, uwe.siart <at> tum.de
Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:29:05 +0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:38:37 +0100
>> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 2497 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 17:23, Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Yes. My .gnus.el: <http://www.siart.de/etc/.gnus.el>
>>>       
>> Aha, yes, the bug is reproducible.
>>     
>
> Which bug?
>   

The one where the OP's .gnus.el contains characters which were correctly 
detected as UTF-8 in 23.0.90, but now appear as \200\224 octal escapes, 
as the file is incorrectly detected as Latin-1.
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