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Weird characters (eg: â\200\220) are displayed when browsing man pages in Emacs

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From: Jehu Amanna <jehuamanna <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50152 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50152: Weird characters (eg: â\200\220) are displayed when browsing man pages in Emacs
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:38:31 +0530

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Ok, I'll check it out.  Not sure where the problem is.

On Sat, 21 Aug, 2021, 10:29 pm Eli Zaretskii, <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Jehu Amanna <jehuamanna <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:37:24 +0530
> >
> > Vist the man page in this following order : C-x RET c utf-8 RET M-x man
> RET memset RET
> >
> > The following is the output:
> >
> > MEMSET(3)                  Linux Programmer's Manual
>  MEMSET(3)
> >
> > NAME
> >        memset - fill memory with a constant byte
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> >        #include <string.h>
> >
> >        void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        The  memset()  function  fills  the  first  n  bytes of the
> memory area
> >        pointed to by s with the constant byte c.
> >
> > RETURN VALUE
> >        The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s.
> >
> > ATTRIBUTES
> >        For an  explanation  of  the  terms  used  in  this  section,
> see  atâ€â€
> >        tributes(7).
>
> It's very strange, because I cannot reproduce the problem on my
> system, with UTF-8 encoded man pages, although my system's
> locale-coding-system is also iso-latin-1.  When I override the default
> encoding with "C-x RET c", the man pages are displayed correctly.
>
> From the screenshot you sent, I see that it was taken not in "emacs -Q",
> but on Reddit you said that "emacs -Q" shows the same problem?
>

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