From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non-ascii chars in octal in sub-shell windows
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:41:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a27ep4w.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1455.1263542904.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
>> 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?
Oops. Thanks, you've called it right: the problem was not on
the emacs side in this case, but on the script side. (Funny
that my terminal windows aren't respecting my locale's encoding,
but that's something I can live with.)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-15 3:22 non-ascii chars in octal in sub-shell windows Joseph Brenner
2010-01-15 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1455.1263542904.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-15 8:41 ` Joseph Brenner [this message]
2010-01-15 8:50 ` Peter Dyballa
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2010-01-15 22:08 ` Joseph Brenner
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