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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Message #122 received at 2497 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:17:35 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The guessing shouldn't give priority to buffer-file-coding-system.
> Instead we have the set-coding-system-priority instead. And IIUC utf-8
> should always have a pretty high priority since false positives are
> fairly rare. So this still looks like a real bug.

Here I would like to note that I never had false positives in the past
(before 23.0.91) but I do have false positives now. Therefore I'm
inclined to call it a bug.

-- 
Uwe
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