From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Subject: strange UTF8 encoding problem (relevant to decoding-system-gone-awry?)
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:48:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8dnmjx5.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (raw)
I've noted the current discussion on Emacs coding.
I am experiencing a strange problem with Emacs encoding which I
thought I might share.
I'm reading the tcpd package's hosts_acccess man page with Emacs man
from this version of Emacs:
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.22 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.4.10) of
2004-12-14
In the man page viewed on a terminal there are nice little bullet
characters. Hexdump shows these characters as B7 so obviously the
terminal is not UTF-8.
The UTF-8 sequence for B7 is 0301 0267.
When I view the man page in Emacs with utf-8 encoding on by default I
get a \267. Encoding the page as unix produces: \302\267 which
*does* look like a valid UTF-8 byte sequence.
When I do (what-cursor-position) on the character I get 302 which is
the first byte in the sequence.
I'm not sure what Emacs is doing here. It looks like valid UTF-8 and
yet (what-cursor-position) obviously does not believe there is a UTF-8
character.
Anybody got any idea why the correct character doesn't display?
btw Woman display the manual page with the strange bullet converted to
an asterisk.
--
Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
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2005-02-17 12:48 Nic Ferrier [this message]
2005-02-22 7:38 ` strange UTF8 encoding problem (relevant to decoding-system-gone-awry?) Kenichi Handa
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