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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: 3607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com,
        tlikonen <at> iki.fi
Subject: Re: bug#3607: 23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:44:44 +0200

> Current Emacs doesn't give utf-8 the higher priority than
> iso-8859-1 in Latin-X language environment.  Are you
> proposing such a change?  I can't decide that is good or not
> because I'm not that familiar with such locales.

It is a good change, because the likelyhood of a valid utf-8 file being
a proper latin-1 file is extremely low.

> ?? Even on GNU/Linux (ubuntu), when I start emacs as this:
> % LANG=de_DE emacs
> iso-8859-1 has higher priority than utf-8.

Duh, you're right.  Even Emacs-22 still does that.  It's wrong.

> Or, do you mean the other applications on GNU/Linux?

No, I meant Emacs, I was convinced we'd fixed it in Emacs-22 for
GNU/Linux, but it appears I was confused.


        Stefan
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