Re: unicode-2 branch: ^O goes missing

[Tom Rauchenwald]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> In article <address@hidden>, Tom Rauchenwald <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> To reproduce:
>> Create an empty File.
>> Do C-q C-o in it. A sequence that looks like ^O should appear.
>> Save the File and kill the buffer.
>> Open the file again. ^O is not there anymore.
>> With emacs22 this works.
>
>> Background is that i tried a elisp-program that parses color-sequences in 
>> IRC, and tried to match ^O, but with the unicode-2 branch this doesn't work 
>> anymore because the ^O goes missing somewhere.
>
> ^O is a locking shift code of ISO-2022, and iso-2022
> detector of emacs-unicode-2 was too strong compared with
> that of Emacs 22.  I've just installed a fix.
>
> But, it is in general safer to specify a proper coding
> system (in your case, iso-safe or no-conversion?) if you are
> reading a file that contains some binary data (for instance
> by let-binding coding-system-for-read).  Another way is to
> let-bind inhibit-iso-escape-detection to t.

Okay, I rebuilt Emacs, and everything is fine now.

Thanks again,

Tom

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