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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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: uwe.siart <at> tum.de, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:03:16 +0200

> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:10:19 +0100
> From: Uwe Siart <uwe.siart <at> tum.de>
> Cc: 
> 
> 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.

Does it work with "C-x RET c utf-8 RET" immediately prior to
"C-x C-f"?  If it does, then the problem is with guessing the
encoding, not with decoding it.

Also, what is the default value of buffer-file-coding-system, and was
it the same in 23.0.90?
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