From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: rvclayton@acm.org (R. Clayton) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unescaping character display. Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:58:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87shjn5kz4.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> References: <87d1at6k5b.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> <83zidwg9rl.fsf@gnu.org> <878tlf7mmi.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> <83d1arftbe.fsf@gnu.org> <871sr778zw.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> <8337bnfmyz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496098750 12152 195.159.176.226 (29 May 2017 22:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 22:59:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 00:59:04 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1dFTcu-0002zZ-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 00:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50777 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFTcz-0001GG-Ej for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFTcS-0001Fw-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFTcP-0003DW-LT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43149 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFTcP-0003Cp-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 18:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dFTcF-0001tM-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2017 00:58:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LWdGOqbrtD86yR+BcZnJo4FOw9A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113258 Archived-At: You mean UTF-8, not UTF-16. Yeah, probably. In any case, at this point you should file a bug report with all the details, because "emacs -Q" shouldn't fail to decode UTF-8 text. That's what I was thinking (or "thinking"). I'd seen o-with-umlauts in rmail, so I figured utf-8 was covered correctly, leaving utf-16 (or utf-32, but that's ridiculous). Can't say I understand what that is about. "utf-16 indicators"? what's that? A symbol or string or keyword indicating utf-16 is relevant in some way, like is used in gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist. I imagined such a mechanism exists to solve the problem, but a quick look around wasn't too promising. I'll dink around with this a while longer. If I don't get anywhere, I'll file a bug report. Thanks for your help.