bug#5080: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <3f2beab60911300543l2436ff3ar8e5b5124db9db218@mail.gmail.com>, 
Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> writes:

> Indic text is not rendered correctly in emacs shell (M-x shell).
> Attached images show indic text displayed as escaped unicode values.
> output of ls (when file names has indic characters) and cat (when
> content of a file has indic characters) is displayed like that.

It seems that the coding system for your shell buffer is
iso-8859-1.  In which locale did you invoke Emacs?  And
please try to change the coding system for the shell buffer
to utf-8 (C-x C-m p utf-8 RET utf-8 RET) and run ls and cat
again.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org