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23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11

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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:28:12 +0100

> Am 4.11.2019 um 10:54 schrieb Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>:
> 
> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE> writes:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have a file named
>> 
>> 	RGB äöüæÆÜÖÄ.txt
>> 
>> it gets displayed as
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The ominous capital C with lowered diaeresis is described as:
>> 
>>        character: O (79, #o117, #x4f)
>> preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
>>       code point: 0x4F
>>           syntax: w 	which means: word
>>         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
>>        l:Latin
>> 		   r:Japanese roman
>>      buffer code: #x4F
>>        file code: #x4F (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>>          display: by this font (glyph code)
>>    x:-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso10646-1
>>   (#x4F)
>> 
>> Character code properties: customize what to show
>>  name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
>>  general-category: Lu (Letter, Uppercase)
>> 
>> 
>> The month name März in a file's date is displayed correctly as Mär. Mac OS X
>> 10.4.11, same effect in HFS+ and UFS file systems. Same for ´, `, ^, and ~
>> accents.
>> 
>> Emacs.FontBackend:	x
>> Emacs*font:	-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1
> 
> (That was 11 years ago.)
> 
> I'm unable to reproduce this.  All characters seem to display
> correctly.
> 
> Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs?  If I don't
> hear back from you within a couple of weeks, I'll just close this bug
> as unreproducible.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas

I checked with a few GNU Emacs versions. Even version 23.4 handles the umlauts in file names correctly.

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  Pete

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