GNU bug report logs - #5080
indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:50:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>, 5080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, psatpute <at> redhat.com, pnemade <at> redhat.com
Subject: bug#5080: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:36:47 +0900

In article <3f2beab60911300543l2436ff3ar8e5b5124db9db218 <at> mail.gmail.com>, Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com> 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
handa <at> m17n.org
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