GNU bug report logs - #642
23.0.60; garbled text (wrong font?) in About GNU Emacs screen

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:35:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 597, 639, 1100

Found in version 23.0.60

Done: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Jason Rumney'" <jasonr <at> gnu.org>, <642 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#642: 23.0.60;	garbled text (wrong font?) in About GNU Emacs screen
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 14:27:03 -0700
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> From: Jason Rumney Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 2:06 PM
> > emacs -Q --debug-init -l ".../path/to/hexrgb.el" -l
".../path/to/oneonone.el" -f "1on1-emacs"
>
> I can't reproduce this bug. If you position the cursor on one of the
> affected characters and press C-u C-x =, what does it say. If the
> resulting Help buffer is also garbled, please try to change
> the buffer's font using Shift-Left Mouse.

The text in the help buffer appears fine. If I put the cursor on the first `?'
char in the first text line (red) and do `C-u C-x =', *Help* shows this:
 
        character: SPC (32, #o40, #x20)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x20
           syntax:    which means: whitespace
         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
                   l:Latin
      buffer code: #x20
        file code: #x20 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
 
uniscribe:-outline-Helvetica-normal-normal-normal-sans-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
(#x20)
 
Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: SPACE
  general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
 
There are text properties here:
  face                 (variable-pitch (:foreground "red"))
  help-echo            [Show]
 
[back]

Oddly enough, when I paste that text, it shows `SPC' for the character, but in
the *Help* buffer, it has `rob' for the character. I switched to HTML mail and
used a Unicode font (Arial Unicode MS), thinking that might make a difference,
but it didn't.

I then tried a cents char in the second text line (blue):
 
        character: a (97, #o141, #x61)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x61
           syntax: w  which means: word
         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
                   l:Latin r:Japanese roman
      buffer code: #x61
        file code: #x61 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
 
uniscribe:-outline-Helvetica-normal-normal-normal-sans-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
(#x61)
 
Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER A
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
 
There are text properties here:
  face                 (variable-pitch (:foreground "darkblue"))
  help-echo            [Show]
 
[back]

The cents character appears correctly in *Help*, but appears as `a' when pasted
into the mail.

I then tried a section symbol in the first tiny black text line:
 
        character: f (102, #o146, #x66)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x66
           syntax: w  which means: word
         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
                   l:Latin r:Japanese roman
      buffer code: #x66
        file code: #x66 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
 
uniscribe:-outline-Helvetica-normal-normal-normal-sans-11-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
(#x66)
 
Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER F
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
 
There are text properties here:
  face                 (variable-pitch (:height 0.8))
  help-echo            [Show]
 
[back]

Again, the section symbol appears correctly in *Help*, but appears as `f' in the
pasted text above.
 
Notice that the help text is describing what you see pasted above, but not what
I see in *Help*. For example, I see a section symbol, but it describes it as a
LATIN SMALL LETTER F.
 
HTH - Drew
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