From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20545: Transliterating curved to straight quotes in 8-bit environments
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:31:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eglvts8h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556BCC28.3030705@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:06:16 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> In trying out a few new things I did run into a problem in batch mode, because
> (print FOO) can generate improperly encoded output if FOO contains characters
> outside the system locale. For example, if the file t.el uses UTF-8 encoding
> and contains this:
>
> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> (print "‘x’ “y” `z'")
>
> and Emacs is in an 8-bit locale, the command 'emacs --batch -l t.el' will output
> the string "‘x’ “y” `z'" to stdout in a UTF-8 encoding, which is an encoding
> error for this environment.
>
> Although this problem can occur with any non-ASCII character, diagnostics
> containing curved quotes will make it more likely. I installed the attached
> patch to fix this, using the same technique for standard output that Emacs is
> already using for standard display.
It sounds strange to use display tables for batch-mode output, but
maybe it's just a matter of getting used to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-01 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-10 23:55 bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 7:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-13 14:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-14 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 16:56 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 6:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16 21:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-17 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-17 16:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-17 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01 3:06 ` bug#20545: Transliterating curved to straight quotes in 8-bit environments Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-05-11 15:57 ` bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct Stefan Monnier
2015-05-13 7:33 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 16:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-26 11:24 ` bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Quote Paul Eggert
2015-05-27 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-27 15:27 ` Paul Eggert
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