GNU bug report logs - #6974
Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#6974: Emacs doesn't like Swedish ä (on w32)
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:33:20 +0200

Am 03.09.2010 19:59, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:23:33 +0200
>> From: Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
>> CC: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
>>
>>>    M-: (unencodable-char-position (point-min) (point-max) 'utf-8) RET
>>>
>>> It should show you the first position in the buffer where you have a
>>> character that cannot be encoded by UTF-8.  If all the characters can
>>> be encoded by UTF-8, this will evaluate to nil.
>>
>> With buffer narrowed to the code from screen-shot it says:
>>
>> 3993 (#o7631, #xf99)
>
> Well, what is at buffer position 3993?
>

the first char not displayed correctly
should display the infinity-symbol,

If I copy this tree numbers here,
it's shown:
"∞"

thats funny.

In this Emacs-buffer it's displayed as "\342\210\236"

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