Re: UTF-8 related display problem

[Marc Wilhelm Küster]

> > Opening a largish UTF-8-encoded text file (ca. 800 kb) with Latin, Greek
> > and Hebrew passages in it causes emacs to stop displaying the text about
> > halfway through the text. It is impossible to navigate beyond that break.
> > Shortening or lengthening the text does only move slighlty the point where
> > the text display stops.
> >
> > The break seems always to be in non-Latin text.
> >
> > The file displays without problem in other UTF-8-aware applications, so 
> the
> > UTF-8 itself should be correct.
>
> Are you sure you have the necessary fonts installed?  The list of
> places where you can download Unicode fonts can be found in the file
> INSTALL in the Emacs distribution.

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, the necessary fonts are installed and the text, when extracted into 
another buffer, even displays correctly. Furthermore, saving the file 
actually shortens it to the point where the display ended, something that 
should never happen with pure display problems. It looks to me rather like 
an input stream problem of sorts (though a strange one, since splitting the 
file into parts and work with those parts is a way to get around the problem).

I have checked the UTF-8 by parsing it with Java's InputStreamReader in 
UTF-8 mode, but no problems whatsoever.

However, I cannot reconstruct the problem with any other file. I generated 
for this purpose a list of all existing Unicode characters, all in 
combination with a combining acute, and, except for the documented issue of 
characters bigger than U33FF and smaller than UE200, I could not spot anything.

The file in question contains data that should not be widely circulated. Is 
it possible that you can have a look at the problem and then delete the 
file afterwards?

Best regards,

Marc Küster


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