bug#29872: 26.0.90; `man' output encoding, hyphen chars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:03:51 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > For 'man', try this:
> >   (setq process-coding-system-alist
> >         (cons '("man" . (utf-8-dos . utf-8-unix))
> >                process-coding-system-alist))
> 
> Thanks; I tried that.  It did not change the result -
> the same problem as reported for this bug report.
> 
> Again I did `emacs -Q', loaded cygwin-mount.el then
> setup-cygwin.el, then evaluated the above code to add
> a `man' entry to `process-coding-system-alist', then
> did `M-x man RET find RET'.  I again see the "preceâ€"
> with the problematic "hyphen".
> 
> process-coding-system-alist is a variable defined in
> ‘C source code’.
> Its value is
> (("man" utf-8-dos . utf-8-unix)
>  ("bash" raw-text-dos . raw-text-unix)
>  ("[pP][lL][iI][nN][kK]" . #1=(undecided-dos . undecided-dos))
>  ("[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" . #1#))

What about the below, does that work?

  (let ((locale-coding-system 'utf-8))
    (man "find"))