GNU bug report logs - #28705
25.3; [PATCH] Change prefered coding system for Japanese language environment

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu <at> utahime.org>

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:26:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 25.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2017-10/msg00226.html

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To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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Subject: bug#28705: closed (25.3; [PATCH] Change prefered coding system
 for Japanese language environment)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:21:03 +0000
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From: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu <at> utahime.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.3; [PATCH] Change prefered coding system for Japanese
 language environment
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:02:54 +0900 (JST)
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In current implementation, 'japanese-iso-8bit' is used as prefered
coding system when you select 'Japanese' as language environment on
Unix system. But nowaday a lot of Japanese Unix users adopt
'ja_JP.UTF-8' as locale setting. So I propose to change prefered
coding system from 'japanese-iso-8bit' to 'utf-8'. And while I'm on
it, comment is fixed to fit current implementation.
[0001-Change-prefered-coding-system-for-Japanese-language-.patch (text/x-patch, inline)]
From 2c80312989659375f82d7eefd333e5ac77663f4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu <at> utahime.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 19:09:21 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Change prefered coding system for Japanese language
 environment.

* lisp/language/japan-util.el (setup-japanese-environment-internal):
  Use utf-8 as prefered coding system instead of japanese-iso-8bit
  when system is not windows. And while I'm at it, fix comment to fit
  current implementation.
---
 lisp/language/japan-util.el | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/language/japan-util.el b/lisp/language/japan-util.el
index 988b925409..fb4b408cd3 100644
--- a/lisp/language/japan-util.el
+++ b/lisp/language/japan-util.el
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun setup-japanese-environment-internal ()
-  ;; By default, we use 'japanese-iso-8bit for file names.  But, the
+  ;; By default, we use 'iso-2022-jp for default coding system.  But, the
   ;; following prefer-coding-system will override it.
   (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos cygwin))
       (prefer-coding-system 'japanese-shift-jis)
-    (prefer-coding-system 'japanese-iso-8bit))
+    (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8))
   (use-cjk-char-width-table 'ja_JP))
 
 (defconst japanese-kana-table
-- 
2.14.2

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu <at> utahime.org>
Cc: 28705-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#28705: 25.3; [PATCH] Change prefered coding system for
 Japanese language environment
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:20:31 -0800
Since nobody commented on it and we have a bug report about this, I 
installed the patch into the master branch and am closing the bug 
report. Thanks again for reporting it, and sorry about the delay.


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