From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1733 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2009 10:06:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 1725 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jan 2009 10:06:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:06:21 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n07A5rjq031964; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:05:53 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n07A5qgP008554; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:05:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:06:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200901071005.n07A5qgP008554@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: eliz@gnu.org CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:18:55 +0200) Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?) References: <20090103061325.GB31571@adacore.com> <200901031022.n03AMq5c027637@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901032356.n03NuSbX005424@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901062125.n06LPZUc011511@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901062246.n06Mkwp6008750@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:18:55 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:46:58 +0100 (CET) > > From: Mark Kettenis > > CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org > > > > > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:59:29 +0200 > > > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:25:36 +0100 (CET) > > > > From: Mark Kettenis > > > > CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org > > > > > > > > This is what C-u C-x says about the funny character in Ludo's name: > > > > > > > > character: Ã (0303, 195, 0xc3) > > > > charset: eight-bit-graphic (8-bit graphic char (0xA0..0xFF)) > > > > > > That's again because your defaults are set to interpret this as > > > something other than UTF-8. > > > > They're not. This is on a standard emacs 21.4 and there is *nothing* > > in my .emacs that doesn't touch anything related to 'coding'. > > In which case Emacs uses your locale to set up things. I'm guessing > that your locale is not a UTF-8 one, probably Latin-1 or Latin-9? I'm using the locale that intended to be used on a UNIX system: the "C" locale ;). > > > > I'm not saying that adding the `coding' cookie is a problem. > > > > I'm arguing that turning ChangeLog into a UTF-8 encoded file > > > > was a bad decision, since there are enough systems where it > > > > will not be properly displayed. > > > > > > And I'm arguing that adding the coding cookie will cause this to be > > > displayed properly in Emacs. > > > > Obviously that is not true on all systems. > > "Obviously"? You mean, Ludo's name is not displayed correctly on your > system even after the `coding' cookie was added? Yes, that's what I have been trying to tell you in the last couple of mails.