GNU bug report logs - #75397
29.4; GNUS message mode lacks Cyrillic support (GNU/Linux)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Nickolai Dobrynin" <ndobrynin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 09:09:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 29.4

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Nickolai Dobrynin" <ndobrynin <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.4; GNUS message mode lacks Cyrillic support (GNU/Linux)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:49:38 +0100

1. Type M-gnus to start GNUS.
2. Start composing a message by pressing 'm'.
3. Enter the first, say, 5 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, i.e. абвгд.
4. Press C-c C-d to save the draft.
5. Press S D e to resume editing.
6. Bizarrely enough, instead of "абвгд", you will see a sequence of digits "01234".

Is this even real?? By the way, this does not occur with ordinary text
files. And everything works fine in the view mode inside the draft
group. Pressing S D e, on the other hand, makes things go haywire.

Incidentally, a similar problem, though not as bad, occurs with German
characters (e.g. ä) which get replaced with \number after pressing S D e.

Many thanks.
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