GNU bug report logs - #3607
23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:10:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 3607 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 3607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Subject: Re: bug#3607: 23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:34:08 +0200

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Drew Adams<drew.adams <at> oracle.com> wrote:
>> Yes, the file shows correctly with "emacs -Q lisp/fringe.el"
>> too. And it is UTF-8 encoded file.
>>
>>     $ file lisp/fringe.el
>>     lisp/fringe.el: UTF-8 Unicode English text
>>
>> My Debian GNU/Linux system uses UTF-8 locale (as all GNU/Linux systems
>> do these days). Emacs probably detects my environment and uses correct
>> encoding settings. But I don't know Emacs works - except
>> everything just
>> works. :-)
>>
>> It really seems that your default environment is something other than
>> UTF-8, something single-byte.
>
> OK, thanks for checking.
>
> IMO, if the file should be encoded in UTF-8, then the file itself should control
> that - as buff-menu.el does, for instance. The user's locale shouldn't enter
> into it at this level. Seems like a bug, to me. (But I'm no expert on this.)


Yes, that must be a bug.
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