bug#24741: 25.1.50; Buffer encoding corrupted up by 'make' in shell-mode

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Start Emacs with "emacs -Q", then try reproducing the problem by doing
> whatever you do when the problem normally happens.
>
> If "emacs -Q" lacks some optional features and custom settings of
> certain variables, load those features and customize those variables
> as part of the recipe (i.e. record everything you need to do starting
> from "emacs -Q" until you are able to run the commands that produce
> the problematic output).
>
> Then post here the full recipe for reproducing the problem, including
> everything you have recorded on the way.
[...]
> This is already dead wrong on Windows, especially setting the default
> encodings to UTF-8.  It cannot possibly work well on Windows.  And you
> shouldn't need this.
>
> What happens if you remove these and try again -- does the problem
> still appear?
>
> Where did you get your Bash, your make.exe, and your Python?  If they
> are from the MSYS2 project, the only customization of coding-systems
> you may need is of process-coding-system-alist.  If you do that, make
> sure the encoding is still your system codepage, and only the decoding
> part is UTF-8.  That's because the encoding is used to encode the
> command-line arguments, and you certainly don't want them to be
> encoded in UTF-8 on Windows, because this is unsupported.

No further reponse, closing.
Possibly a bit soon, so feel free to reopen.