[debbugs-tracker] bug#21780: closed (25.0.50; Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes)

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> 25.0.50; Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes
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> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:50:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> emacs -Q
> M-x load-library isearch.el
> C-h f isearch-forward
> In buffer *Help*: C-x C-w foo.txt
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> You get a coding-system warning.  I tried saving it as utf-8 and as raw
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> In both cases, when I open that file in a new Emacs session, I see octal
> escapes where there were curly quotes.
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> Why were there curly quotes?  Because `C-h f' produces curly quotes.
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> This is a regression - no such problem exists with Emacs 24.5 (or prior).
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> In order to produce a reasonable, readable file from the *Help* buffer
> that I attached to the following mail message to address@hidden,
> I had to resort to using Emacs 24.5:
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>  "RE: Exposing Isearch toggleable options", 2015-10-28, ~21:20
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> (BTW, it is apparently *not* the case, in spite of what is stated at
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/index.html, that
> the mailing list archive is updated every 30 minutes.  Far from it,
> it seems.  That's why I didn't provide a URL to the emacs-devel post.
> Got tired after 1/2 hour of waiting for it to show up.)
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> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2015-10-09
> Bzr revision: af45926d66d303fdc4c2c3ebbc820b4a54d9e4a0
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
>  `configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs'
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> Re: bug#21780: 25.0.50; Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes
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> > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:50:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
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> > emacs -Q
> > M-x load-library isearch.el
> > C-h f isearch-forward
> > In buffer *Help*: C-x C-w foo.txt
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> > You get a coding-system warning.  I tried saving it as utf-8 and as raw
> > text.
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> > In both cases, when I open that file in a new Emacs session, I see octal
> > escapes where there were curly quotes.
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> Thanks, I fixed the first part of this: Emacs should no longer ask
> annoying questions when you save help buffers with curved quotes.
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> The second part, which happens when visiting the saved file, is not a
> bug: you need to specify the encoding of files when visiting them in
> locales whose default encoding is different.  (Actually, I expect this
> to work automatically for you, at least in "emacs -Q", but that
> doesn't happen in every locale.)
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