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Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:10:48 +0900 |
In article <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> Sven Joachim <address@hidden> writes:
> > It seems that non-Ascii characters have been messed up in ChangeLog
> > files for a while. For instance, the latest entry in lisp/ChangeLog in
> > EMACS_22_BASE looks like this:
> >
> > ,----
> > | 2008-03-25 Johan Bockg$(Q)[(Brd <address@hidden>
> > |
> > | * info.el (Info-isearch-search): Always return point.
> > |
> > `----
> >
> > The trunk show similar garbage for Jan Djärv's changes in several files,
> > apparently starting after the merge of the unicode-2 branch.
> That appears to be a bug in the iso-2022 decoder in Emacs 22. Emacs 23
> can decode this properly.
"ESC $ ( Q" is for a charset newly introduced in Emacs 23.
So, Emacs 22 doesn't know how to decode it, and as Emacs 22
has a limitation on the number of charsets, there's no way
to support all of such escape sequence.
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Kenichi Handa
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