GNU bug report logs - #2741
Decoding of vc-annotate output affected by language environment

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        Emacs Bug Tracker <submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#2741: Mixed UTF-8 and raw bytes in output of vc-annotate after (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:23:16 -0400

> 4) Finally, after unsetting LANG or not (it is irrelevant) do

>     emacs -Q --eval "(set-language-environment \"UTF-8\")" test.txt -f
> vc-annotate

>   Now the *Annotate* buffer is in `utf-8-dos', but contains a mixture
> of utf-8 and raw bytes:

>     ^7fb00c1 (Juanma Barranquero 2009-03-22 00:01:39 +0100 1) A few
> Spanish characters: \341\351\355\363\372\374\361

I don't see a mixture of anything, I just see latin-1 encoded chars
decoded incorrectly because Emacs somehow decided to try and decode the
stream using the utf-8 coding-system.
But yes that's a bug.  `vc-annotate' should use the main file's
coding-system to decode the annotated text, regardless of
language environment.


        Stefan
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