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23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: handa <at> m17n.org, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, uwe.siart <at> tum.de
Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:34:45 -0500

>> So, again, the bug is in the ordering
> Actually, the OP was complaining that, even with this ordering, Emacs
> 23 did TRT for him, and that a recent change broke that.  That bug is
> fixed now, I believe, so you are talking about a more general problem.

Yes.  I didn't realize that the reason why it worked before is because
we were luckly.

>> we have to figure out which code ends up putting latin-1 before utf-8 in
>> the coding system priority.

> Well, I think this is fairly easy: set-locale-environment does it.
> Observe:

>   (defun set-locale-environment (&optional locale-name frame)
[...]
>>>>>> (prefer-coding-system coding-system)
[...]
> Even the doc string says that the coding system priority is set
> according to the locale's native encoding.

Indeed, thanks for spotting it.  Can someone change this code so it
doesn't move utf-8 from first to second place?


        Stefan

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