From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ascii chars in octal in sub-shell windows Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:08:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83r5pr7ptu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87aawgdpcj.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263544433 5636 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2010 08:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:33:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 15 09:33:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVhcn-0002zX-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:33:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhco-0001ih-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhEE-0002fX-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:08:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhE7-0002e7-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:08:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49453 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NVhE6-0002dz-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:3748) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVhE5-0006rN-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NVhE5-0003A9-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KWA00F003VTJM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:07:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.60.183]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KWA00C343WZ2AE0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:07:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87aawgdpcj.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71234 Archived-At: > From: Joseph Brenner > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:22:20 -0800 > > > When running a program that outputs utf-8 characters such as u-umlaut, > in a terminal window I'll see the actual character, but in an emacs > sub-shell I'm seeing the octal form (which looks like: \374). \374 (252 decimal, FC hex) cannot appear in any valid UTF-8 sequence, AFAIK. Are you absolutely sure that program produces UTF-8 encoded text?