From: George Politis <gp@superpointer.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Accented characters do not display correctly when running GNU Emacs inside a Windows Command Prompt
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:16:44 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <735dfbfa-a5e8-4581-88a8-bf5e0899126e@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.16446.1356983491.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Monday, 31 December 2012 20:51:17 UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:39:14 -0800 (PST)
>
> > From: George Politis
> >
> > If I run GNU Emacs in console mode (with the -nw switch) in
> > PowerShell or a Command Prompt, then accented characters appear as
> > escape sequences in the editor. For example, if I type the letter
> > ``é``, I get ``\202``, for ``à`` I get ``\205``, etc. In windowed
> > mode (without the -nw switch), it works OK!
> >
> >
> > I am not even remotely familiar with the Emacs source code, but I
> > suspect that this might be a problem with the way it reads
> > characters from the Windows terminal. Then again it might be an
> > obscure configuration error on my part.
> >
> > I've tried all possible combinations of the following lines in my
> > init file:
> >
> > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> > (setq coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
> > (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
> >
> > I'm using the Win32 build of GNU Emacs 24.2.1.
> >
> > Can somebody please help me or confirm that this is a bug?
>
>
> This is a known bug that is already solved for the upcoming release
>
> 24.3 of Emacs. See
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12082.
>
> If you can try the latest pretest from alpha.gnu.org, you should see
> this problem gone (I hope).
This was indeed the problem. I just installed the latest pretest and it
works great now. Many thanks!
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2012-12-31 19:39 Accented characters do not display correctly when running GNU Emacs inside a Windows Command Prompt George Politis
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