From: ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Misformatted replies to UTF-8 messages
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:08:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2n1yf9ph8e.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020225181644.5585C-100000@is> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:21:55 +0200 (IST)")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> This is off the top of my head, before I had time to step through the
> code.
>
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, ShengHuo ZHU wrote:
>
>> I received a bug report in Emacs 21.1.95 which is because
>> find-coding-systems-region prefer ctext-no-compositions to mule-utf-8,
>> e.g. the following lines return ctext-no-compositions.
>>
>> (car (find-coding-systems-string
>> (concat (char-to-string 2276) (char-to-string 2367))))
>
> Why is this regarded as a bug? UTF-8 is generally very low on the
> priority list of the possible encodings, so IIRC the user needs to invoke
> prefer-coding-system to get UTF. If she doesn't, almost any other
> encoding will be preferred to UTF-8.
Because I saw it before in the Emacs main branch and later it returns
mule-utf-8.
> Is this some language environment that is already supposed to prefer
> UTF-8? If so, could the user who saw the problem please submit a full
> bug report with the necessary info supplied by "M-x report-emacs-bug"?
I've asked the user to submit the bug report.
>> I think it has been fixed in the main branch. Could the fix be ported
>> to EMACS_21_1_RC?
>
> If the problem doesn't exist in CVS head, it's by sheer luck, because
> IIRC the definition of ctext-no-compositions is identical in both
> branches.
But the definition of utf-8 is changed, probably in Dave Love's
2001-12-18, -15, -07 changes.
ShengHuo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-25 13:38 Misformatted replies to UTF-8 messages ShengHuo ZHU
2002-02-25 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-25 18:08 ` ShengHuo ZHU [this message]
2002-02-25 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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