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bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in message
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:21:55 +0300 |
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 20:53:12 +0200
> Cc: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>, 5050@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> If I do
> >>
> >> M-x ediff-files RET
> >>
> >> and choose binary files, e.g. x.png and x.jpg, this is, what I see in
> >> the `*ediff*' buffer (no indentation):
> >>
> >> Bin\303\244rdateien /home/sebastian/x.png and /home/sebastian/x.jpg sind
> >> verschieden.
> >>
> >> What I expect to see is:
> >>
> >> Binärdateien /home/sebastian/x.png and /home/sebastian/x.jpg sind
> >> verschieden.
> >
> > I don't have a German locale here, so I can't test this. However, the
> > buffer I get when I try this is seems to use an utf-8 input method, so
> > it seems likely that this has been fixed in the decade that passed since
> > the bug report.
> >
> > Does somebody here have Emacs running in a German locale and can test
> > this? (Or any other locale that outputs non-ASCII characters for "diff
> > bin1 bin2".)
>
> When I start Emacs built from current master like this:
>
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 emacs -Q
>
> and then carry out the above recipe, I get exactly the above message
> with raw bytes instead of a-umlaut.
What do you see in that environment if you diff 2 files that have text
with umlauts? do you also see raw bytes?
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/08/20
- bug#5050: 23.1; efiff: Displaying bytes instead of characters in messages, Stephen Berman, 2020/08/20