Subject: bug#5080: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell

From: Kenichi Handa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:36:47 +0900

In article <[email-masked]>, Praveen A <[email-masked]> writes:

> Indic text is not rendered correctly in emacs shell (M-x shell).
> Attached images show indic text displayed as escaped unicode values.
> output of ls (when file names has indic characters) and cat (when
> content of a file has indic characters) is displayed like that.

It seems that the coding system for your shell buffer is
iso-8859-1.  In which locale did you invoke Emacs?  And
please try to change the coding system for the shell buffer
to utf-8 (C-x C-m p utf-8 RET utf-8 RET) and run ls and cat
again.

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Kenichi Handa
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