From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: msys2 build path problems + copy-paste english results in chinese characters Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:46:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83a6hks26v.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29704"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 17:48:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msSmj-0007S1-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:48:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msSmi-0000f9-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msSkr-00078K-0M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57178 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msSkq-00059V-1g; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:46:48 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=9k9N19n9V3qzr7MVq8eD79XgAStsNnTYwF0CBMcMowk=; b=Xi1hrnH7oQ2W 2jvonAx6JIT4PFX+Z7JloULCtSveaXlzBrdaLaMHg/+RIQjBds6CekxC8ufT8yXKkGyXnOjnr6NlS z/KKK4aK9PJY4chBlnIW1Ofbmkjvvj/OwEfEpaI9fjc9etH5oFVmIYq3k5PHx4wEG5j1UANnnHxS+ RkicVHkfZr3630o5ZyZNuPXlM8Gzh7+2+J7/zcLpfNEIX4vA71Rs9DpT8JH0Zy7LIVi9WIUd8eT11 caam3cxE7G9GGrnE4/tWV7/XUDggEUr4/VogsAbRdcGH0s3/bI38dRoUeTrLI/ox+iaBwbdJHnLCH z0U5C7mqOUuqlhOFpdC5Ow==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3785 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msSkp-0000wr-QH; Wed, 01 Dec 2021 11:46:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from arthur miller on Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:04:50 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280641 Archived-At: > From: arthur miller > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:04:50 +0000 > > I copy pasted english text in newly compiled Emacs, and get back some text in Chinese (at least I think it is) Copy-pasted from which application? If it's an MSYS2 application, then I suspect the problem is MSYS2 apps encode copied text in UTF-8 (since Cygwin does, AFAIK), whereas a native MS-Windows build of Emacs expects a UTF-16 encoding. > Also, as seen exec-path is wrong. I started, as recommended, via windows means (shortcuts) instead of > msys/mingw prompts. Wrong how? I don't see anything about exec-path in the image you posted.