From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29872: 26.0.90; `man' output encoding, hyphen chars Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:22:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83mv20dqk7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2dfed463-2ddb-4591-a476-c78e0b8d445b@default> <838tdnh6ej.fsf@gnu.org> <5a25751a-3a68-4e44-862f-44fa47871c04@default> <83shbtg8zc.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv21fjpb.fsf@gnu.org> <8e3728bd-a5d4-448d-b1f0-861fd7450f71@default> <83bmigfx7y.fsf@gnu.org> <24cbbb9f-9ea2-4371-8d03-bda8f3206121@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514658075 931 195.159.176.226 (30 Dec 2017 18:21:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 19:21:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLkq-0008Gf-OW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 19:21:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLmp-0007bX-PG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45501) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLmk-0007bO-5l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:23:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLmh-00078d-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:49435) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLmg-00078W-Sb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:23:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLmg-0003QS-Io for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:23:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:23:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29872 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29872-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29872.151465814913103 (code B ref 29872); Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:23:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29872) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Dec 2017 18:22:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58116 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLm9-0003PH-2j for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:22:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54133) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLm7-0003P2-Kg for 29872@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLlz-00062R-Ci for 29872@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:22:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLlz-00062D-9U; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:22:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1579 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eVLlx-0005Fe-9n; Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:22:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <24cbbb9f-9ea2-4371-8d03-bda8f3206121@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:03:47 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141624 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:03:47 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > > Suddenly something that (still) works in all prior > > > > Emacs releases (as far back as Emacs 20, at least) > > > > no longer works. > > > > > > Sorry, my bad. At least as far back as Emacs 22. > > > > > > Emacs 20 shows the same problem. There the output > > > shows this, where the end of the line is displayed > > > as `\342\200\220'. > > > > Thanks, this is good to know, but then how did you obtain the text > > with an ASCII hyphen that you said earlier you saw in older versions > > of Emacs? > > Sorry, I don't understand your question. The output is > correct in all prior Emacs releases, as far back as Emacs > 22 (not 20). Well, AFAICT, it could only have worked by sheer luck. > But it is incorrect in Emacs 26.0.90 and later, as I said. > (And it is incorrect in Emacs 20, in the way I showed.) > > What part of this is not yet clear to you? The output > is correct, with a normal hyphen, with Emacs 22 through > 25.3.1. The output is incorrect for Emacs 26 and 27. > (And the output is incorrect for Emacs 20.) > > > In any case, the above means the decoding of the stuff produced by > > the Cygwin 'man' you have installed was incorrect since long ago. > > I don't understand what you are saying. As I said, the > output looks correct since Emacs 22, until Emacs 26. > It has not been "incorrect since long ago". It is > incorrect since Emacs 26 (pretest). Forget it, I just became confused about what did and what didn't work before and after Emacs 22.