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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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        3607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 3607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tlikonen <at> iki.fi
Subject: bug#3607: 23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:47:28 +0900

I've just added "coding: utf-8" cookie to fringe.el.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org


In article <e01d8a50906181434t6e6c296ega704dc11fbb77b31 <at> mail.gmail.com>, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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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