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bug#20545: Transliterating curved to straight quotes in 8-bit environmen
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20545: Transliterating curved to straight quotes in 8-bit environments |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:31:42 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 20:06:16 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> In trying out a few new things I did run into a problem in batch mode,
> because
> (print FOO) can generate improperly encoded output if FOO contains characters
> outside the system locale. For example, if the file t.el uses UTF-8 encoding
> and contains this:
>
> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> (print "‘x’ “y” `z'")
>
> and Emacs is in an 8-bit locale, the command 'emacs --batch -l t.el' will
> output
> the string "‘x’ “y” `z'" to stdout in a UTF-8 encoding, which is an encoding
> error for this environment.
>
> Although this problem can occur with any non-ASCII character, diagnostics
> containing curved quotes will make it more likely. I installed the attached
> patch to fix this, using the same technique for standard output that Emacs is
> already using for standard display.
It sounds strange to use display tables for batch-mode output, but
maybe it's just a matter of getting used to.
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