From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2497@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, uwe.siart@tum.de
Subject: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:40:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4oyf18le.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uocwnpwtj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:19:04 +0200")
>> It works with "C-x RET c utf-8 RET" immediately prior to "C-x C-f".
>> > If it does, then the problem is with guessing the encoding, not with
>> > decoding it.
>> That's also my impression.
>> > Also, what is the default value of buffer-file-coding-system, and was
>> > it the same in 23.0.90?
>> iso-latin-1-dos in 23.0.90 and in 23.0.91.
> Then you shouldn't expect Emacs to guess UTF-8 encoding correctly in
> every single instance. Distinguishing between UTF-8 and Latin-1 is
The guessing shouldn't give priority to buffer-file-coding-system.
Instead we have the set-coding-system-priority instead.
And IIUC utf-8 should always have a pretty high priority since false
positives are fairly rare. So this still looks like a real bug.
Stefan
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2009-02-17 10:35 ` bug#2354: 23.0.90; Emacs fails to detect utf-8 encoding with language environment Latin-1 David Engster
2009-02-17 16:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-17 18:04 ` David Engster
2009-02-28 12:30 ` bug#2354: marked as done (23.0.90; Emacs fails to detect utf-8 encoding with language environment Latin-1) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-02-27 14:10 ` bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k Uwe Siart
2009-02-27 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-27 16:48 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-27 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-27 20:35 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-28 4:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-02-28 8:17 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-28 10:14 ` David Engster
2009-02-28 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-28 14:16 ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-28 14:31 ` David Engster
2009-02-28 22:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-28 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-28 12:16 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-28 22:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-02 11:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-03-02 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-02 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-03 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-27 16:11 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-27 16:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-27 16:27 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-27 16:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-27 16:23 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-27 16:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-27 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-27 20:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-28 1:29 ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-27 17:02 ` Leo
2009-02-27 17:46 ` David Engster
2009-02-27 21:15 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-28 1:32 ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-28 1:35 ` Processed (with 5 errors): " Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-02-27 23:34 ` bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Windows2k Richard M Stallman
2009-02-28 9:47 ` Uwe Siart
2009-02-28 18:08 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-28 12:30 ` bug#2497: marked as done (23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k) Emacs bug Tracking System
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