From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29872: 26.0.90; `man' output encoding, hyphen chars Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:24:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83bmieeuhm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<2dfed463-2ddb-4591-a476-c78e0b8d445b@default>> <<838tdnh6ej.fsf@gnu.org>> <<5a25751a-3a68-4e44-862f-44fa47871c04@default>> <<83shbtg8zc.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83mv21fjpb.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83d12wfxb5.fsf@gnu.org>> <83o9mgdqn3.fsf@gnu.org> <35ce0970-78e8-4e43-bcc3-4731d201bdd4@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514737400 2389 195.159.176.226 (31 Dec 2017 16:23:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 31 17:23:16 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgOD-0008Pz-RO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:23:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgQC-0002lR-Ux for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgQ6-0002km-4R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgQ2-0001zg-Ub for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:50222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgQ2-0001zb-R3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgQ2-0001Uk-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29872 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29872-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29872.15147374665697 (code B ref 29872); Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29872) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2017 16:24:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58903 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgPS-0001Tp-7t for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44147) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgPQ-0001Td-PJ for 29872@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgPI-0000jh-G2 for 29872@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56581) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgPI-0000jd-Cq; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:24:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2557 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eVgPH-0005TT-PM; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:24:16 -0500 In-reply-to: <35ce0970-78e8-4e43-bcc3-4731d201bdd4@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:11:05 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141646 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:11:05 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org > > > What about the below, does that work? > > (let ((locale-coding-system 'utf-8)) > > (man "find")) > > Yes! With `emacs -Q', loading the two files mentioned, > and then evaluating that sexp, the `man' output is correct: > hyphens appear as they should - that is: > > name: HYPHEN > general-category: Pd (Punctuation, Dash) > decomposition: (8208) ('‐') > > What should I then change in, say, `setup-cygwin.el', > to make that happen? (Or does something need to be > changed in Emacs itself?) For Emacs 26, I've just committed a change that introduces a new defcustom, Man-coding-system, which you can customize to utf-8 to get the correct behavior in your case. For older versions of Emacs, you will need to use a separate command that invokes 'man' as shown above, because man.el unconditionally uses locale-coding-system for that, and locale-coding-system on MS-Windows can never be UTF-8.