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23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#829: closed (23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11)
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:35:02 +0000

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Your message dated Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:34:25 +0100
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and subject line Re: 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #829,
regarding 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:18:40 +0200

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Hello!

I have a file named

	RGB äöüæÆÜÖÄ.txt

it gets displayed as

[pastedGraphic.tiff (image/tiff, inline)]

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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



In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
 of 2008-08-29 on localhost
Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version  
11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- 
with-dbus' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ 
Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ 
Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site- 
lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
qt4-x11/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/system-openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/X11R6/lib/ 
pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-Wno-pointer-sign -bind_at_load  
-H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree- 
vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks- 
and-partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=- 
no-cpp-precomp' 'LDFLAGS=-bind_at_load -dead_strip -multiply_defined  
suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Help

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  view-mode: t


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Greetings

  Pete

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money  
in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
				– Evan Esar

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 829-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; wrong position of accents in X11
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:34:25 +0100

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE> writes:

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

Thanks for verifying.  I'm consequently closing this bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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