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23.1; man.el{,c} fails to load when utf-8 mode enabled

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From: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 5792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5792: 23.1; man.el{,c} fails to load when utf-8 mode enabled
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:53:50 -0700

>>>>> "Chong" == Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

>> In my .emacs, I have:
>> 
>> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
>> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
>> 
>> When I invoke M-x man, I get an invalid byte when trying to load
>> either the man.el or the man.elc.

Chong> Thanks for the bug report, but it's took vague for me to reproduce; for
Chong> instance, what do you mean by "get an invalid byte"?  Could you provide
Chong> a testcase starting from `emacs -Q'?

I imagine it'd be something like

emacs -Q

M-: (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) RET
M-: (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) RET
M-: (load-library "man) RET

which will blow up while trying to read the "man" library.  There's
something both the man.el and man.elc versions that is *not* utf-8
encoded, probably just latin1.

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