Re: encoding of lisp/language/devan-util.el

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org> writes:

|> I cannot make bootstrap, because devan-util.el gives me a parse error
|> (parenthesis missing).  When I open the file, and move down to defvar
|> dev-char-glyph, I can see the problem:  the cdr of the second element
|> in the alist is corrupt (using \e for escape): "\e$,4 K")\e(B" -- the
|> quote after the K closes the string, etc.
|> 
|> Obviously the file is not being decoded correctly.  Calling M-x
|> describe-coding-system returns:
|> 
|> Coding system for saving this buffer:
|>   J -- iso-2022-7bit-unix
|> Default coding system (for new files):
|>   1 -- iso-latin-1 (alias: iso-8859-1 latin-1)
|> 
|> This looks ok.  What is the problem, then?

I can't reproduce that with an emacs updated this morning, it can
correctly decode the file.  Are you sure it's not some kind of corruption
on your side?

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."