Accented characters, Emacs and Cygwin

Accented characters, Emacs and Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

I can insert accented characters in Emacs buffers (current Emacs CVS 
23.0.60, Cygwin build), but when I copy/paste them writing mails with 
Thunderbird or in Cygwin console (dos-like as Cygwin.bat), some garbage 
appears.

For example the 'è' character appears:

in Thunderbird and Cygwin console     as    ')^'
in Cygwin rxvt                        as    '@(Q)^@B'

Instead it is fine on Cygwin xterm or urxvt.

Is this behaviour to be expected?

Can I adopt some 'counter-measure'?


Thanks,
    Angelo.

Re: Accented characters, Emacs and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:47:54 +0100
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> 
> I can insert accented characters in Emacs buffers (current Emacs CVS 
> 23.0.60, Cygwin build), but when I copy/paste them writing mails with 
> Thunderbird or in Cygwin console (dos-like as Cygwin.bat), some garbage 
> appears.
> 
> For example the 'è' character appears:
> 
> in Thunderbird and Cygwin console     as    ')^'
> in Cygwin rxvt                        as    '@(Q)^@B'
> 
> Instead it is fine on Cygwin xterm or urxvt.
> 
> Is this behaviour to be expected?

I suggest to ask on the Cygwin list whether the Cygwin xterm and rxvt
support non-ASCII characters in X selections.  (AFAIK, Cygwin does not
yet support any locale but the C locale.)  If the Cygwin maintainers
say it should work, come back here and someone might find time to
investigate this.

Re: Accented characters, Emacs and Cygwin

[Angelo Graziosi]

The problem I described in [1], seems to be solved in recent CVS update.

I think this change

2008-03-27  Kenichi Handa  <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>

         * charset.c (Fdefine_charset_internal): Change the way of
         registering charsets in Vcharset_order_list.
         (syms_of_charset): Make the charset `eight-bit' supplementary.

makes the difference.

Perhaps, what I described is also related to the discussion [2].

Many thanks to the people that contributed to the solution.


Cheers,
    Angelo.

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[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg01861.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg02726.html