bug#12055: Re: Re: Re: bug#12055: 24.1.50; Characters "á" and "é" are not correctly displayed on a Windows terminal

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:29:57 +0200
> Cc: dmoncayo@gmail.com, 12055@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > What are the codes of these characters, as "C-u C-x =" sees them?
> 
> á and é, as above.
> 
> As for í, ó, ú, ñ and ç, in that order:
> 
>              position: 194 of 198 (97%), column: 5
>             character: ¡ (displayed as ¡) (codepoint 161, #o241, #xa1)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0xA1
>                syntax: . 	which means: punctuation
>              category: .:Base, h:Korean, j:Japanese, l:Latin
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
>           buffer code: #xC2 #xA1
>             file code: #xC2 #xA1 (encoded by coding system nil)
>               display: terminal code #xAD
> 
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
>   general-category: Po (Punctuation, Other)
>   decomposition: (161) ('¡')
> 
> 
>              position: 195 of 198 (98%), column: 6
>             character: ¢ (displayed as ¢) (codepoint 162, #o242, #xa2)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0xA2
>                syntax: _ 	which means: symbol
>              category: .:Base, j:Japanese, l:Latin
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
>           buffer code: #xC2 #xA2
>             file code: #xC2 #xA2 (encoded by coding system nil)
>               display: terminal code #xBD
> 
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: CENT SIGN
>   general-category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
>   decomposition: (162) ('¢')
> 
> 
>              position: 196 of 198 (98%), column: 7
>             character: £ (displayed as £) (codepoint 163, #o243, #xa3)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0xA3
>                syntax: _ 	which means: symbol
>              category: .:Base, j:Japanese, l:Latin
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
>           buffer code: #xC2 #xA3
>             file code: #xC2 #xA3 (encoded by coding system nil)
>               display: terminal code #x9C
> 
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: POUND SIGN
>   general-category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
>   decomposition: (163) ('£')
> 
> 
>              position: 197 of 198 (99%), column: 8
>             character: ¤ (displayed as ¤) (codepoint 164, #o244, #xa4)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0xA4
>                syntax: _ 	which means: symbol
>              category:
> 		       .:Base, b:Arabic, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese, l:Latin
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
>           buffer code: #xC2 #xA4
>             file code: #xC2 #xA4 (encoded by coding system nil)
>               display: terminal code #xCF
> 
> 
>              position: 198 of 198 (99%), column: 9
>             character: ‡ (displayed as ‡) (codepoint 135, #o207, #x87)
>     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> code point in charset: 0x87
>                syntax: w 	which means: word
>              category: l:Latin
>              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
>           buffer code: #xC2 #x87
>             file code: #xC2 #x87 (encoded by coding system nil)
>               display: not encodable for terminal
> 
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>   name: <control>
>   old-name: END OF SELECTED AREA
>   general-category: Cc (Other, Control)
>   decomposition: (135) ('‡')

That's strange: these are definitely the cp850 codes for the Latin-1
characters you typed, so I wonder why just setting
terminal-coding-system to that doesn't fix the problem...