GNU bug report logs - #5792
23.1; man.el{,c} fails to load when utf-8 mode enabled

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn <at> stonehenge.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 5792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: cyd <at> stupidchicken.com, 5792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5792: 23.1; man.el{,c} fails to load when utf-8 mode enabled
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:26:50 +0300

> From: merlyn <at> stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:04:55 -0700
> Cc: 5792 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> All I know is that in my .emacs, if I had this:
> 
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (load-library "man")
> 
> it'd blow up.

I don't see how setting terminal and keyboard encoding could affect
loading a Lisp file.  These settings are relevant only to keyboard
input and terminal output.

Could you perhaps bisect your .emacs to find out what else is needed
to reproduce this problem?
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