Re: Character shown as \377 in *Shell* on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:07:59 +0100
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > Kenichi Handa wrote:
> >     
> > > It seems that default-process-coding-system is not setup
> > > properly on Windows.  When I run Emacs on my Windows,
> > > default-buffer-file-coding-system is set correctly to:
> > >   japanese-shift-jis-dos
> > > but default-process-coding-system is:
> > >   (undecided-dos . undecided-unix)
> > >
> > > On the other hand, when I run Emacs on GNU-Linux with
> > > ja_JP.EUC-JP locale, default-process-coding-system is:
> > >   (japanese-iso-8bit . japanese-iso-8bit)
> > >
> > > Is this because of DOS/Windows specific code in mule-cmds.el?
> > >   
> > >       
> > I do not know, but this is the value that is set by 
> > set-default-process-coding-system in w32-fns.el. This is run in 
> > before-init-hook.
> >     
>
> This may or may not be a bug, but I'm not sure it has anything to do
> with the original problem.  Does the problem with DIR output go away
> if you change default-process-coding-system and process-coding-system
> to `(cp850-dos . cp850-unix)'?
>   
    emacs -Q
    M-: (setq default-process-coding-system '(cp850-dos . cp850unix))
    M-x shell

The \377 are gone. Instead I see an underline that looks slightly red to 
me (see attached image). Seems strange, but I have no idea of why. 
However when I cut and paste to Thunderbird it looks ok:

   2006-12-28  15:39         6 592 783 emacs.exe

What do you mean with process-coding-system? I guess you told me the 
wrong name?