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23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: uwe.siart <at> tum.de
Cc: 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:46:12 +0100

Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de> writes:
> I'm using the windows port of 23.0.91 on Win2k SP4 and I found that it
> fails to read utf-8 encoded files correctly. When visiting a file in
> utf-8 encoding all characters above 255 are screwed up and "C-h C RET"
> indicates iso-latin1-dos for saving the file. This has not been an
> issue in 23.0.90.

Maybe this is a duplicate of what I reported in

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2354

As I write later in that bug report, I think I could track down this
issue to the change in revision 1.413 of src/coding.c. Maybe you could
try if the same applies to your problem.

-David

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