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From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Man-mode showing bytes at line end positions
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:17:25 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHCj4z4F4zO2Rr1y564Bm7Ba2T4mhWzWW2Gg0RckvOkpW1qLiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83po76liq4.fsf@gnu.org>

Thanks, that fixed it. :)

Narendra Joshi
On 22 Dec 2017 23:59, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 23:22:12 +0530
> >
> > The values are as follows:
> >
> > default-process-coding-system
> > (iso-latin-1-unix . iso-latin-1-unix)
> >
> >
> > locale-coding-system
> > iso-latin-1-unix
>
> That's your problem, right there: your locale is Latin-1, but the man
> pages were generated for a UTF-8 locale.  This mismatch is the root
> cause of the problem you are having.
>
> The solution for you would be to change your locale to be a UTF-8
> locale, i.e. a locale which uses UTF-8 as its codeset.  Then Emacs
> will default to UTF-8 when it decodes the man page, and you will see
> the hyphen characters instead of binary bytes.
>
>


      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-22 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-17 11:48 Man-mode showing bytes at line end positions Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 12:01 ` Yuri Khan
2017-12-17 12:55   ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 15:29     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-17 18:53       ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-17 20:14         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 16:02         ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-22 16:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 17:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 17:52             ` Narendra Joshi
2017-12-22 18:29               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-22 19:47                 ` Narendra Joshi [this message]

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