bug#2497: marked as done (23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k)

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regarding 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
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> 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
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> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:10:19 +0100
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> I'm using the windows port of 23.0.91 on Win2k SP4 and I found that it
> fails to read utf-8 encoded files correctly. When visiting a file in
> utf-8 encoding all characters above 255 are screwed up and "C-h C RET"
> indicates iso-latin1-dos for saving the file. This has not been an
> issue in 23.0.90.
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> Uwe
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195)
>  of 2009-02-27 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.0.2195
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> Re: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
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> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:21:08 +0200
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> > From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:46:12 +0100
> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2497@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
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> > Uwe Siart <uwe.siart@tum.de> writes:
> > > I'm using the windows port of 23.0.91 on Win2k SP4 and I found that it
> > > fails to read utf-8 encoded files correctly. When visiting a file in
> > > utf-8 encoding all characters above 255 are screwed up and "C-h C RET"
> > > indicates iso-latin1-dos for saving the file. This has not been an
> > > issue in 23.0.90.
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> > Maybe this is a duplicate of what I reported in
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> > http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=2354
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> > As I write later in that bug report, I think I could track down this
> > issue to the change in revision 1.413 of src/coding.c. Maybe you could
> > try if the same applies to your problem.
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> Should be fixed by this change:
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> 2009-02-28  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
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>         * coding.c (detect_coding_charset): Fix change from 2008-10-21.
>         Also, check iso-latin-*, not only iso-8859-*.
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