Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Sven Joachim <address@hidden> writes:
> > It seems that non-Ascii characters have been messed up in ChangeLog
> > files for a while.  For instance, the latest entry in lisp/ChangeLog in
> > EMACS_22_BASE looks like this:
> >
> > ,----
> > | 2008-03-25  Johan Bockg$(Q)[(Brd  <address@hidden>
> > | 
> > |   * info.el (Info-isearch-search): Always return point.
> > | 
> > `----
> >
> > The trunk show similar garbage for Jan Djärv's changes in several files,
> > apparently starting after the merge of the unicode-2 branch.

> That appears to be a bug in the iso-2022 decoder in Emacs 22.  Emacs 23
> can decode this properly.

"ESC $ ( Q" is for a charset newly introduced in Emacs 23.
So, Emacs 22 doesn't know how to decode it, and as Emacs 22
has a limitation on the number of charsets, there's no way
to support all of such escape sequence.

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Kenichi Handa
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