Re: Character shown as \377 in *Shell* on w32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:07:59 +0100
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > It seems that default-process-coding-system is not setup
> > properly on Windows.  When I run Emacs on my Windows,
> > default-buffer-file-coding-system is set correctly to:
> >   japanese-shift-jis-dos
> > but default-process-coding-system is:
> >   (undecided-dos . undecided-unix)
> >
> > On the other hand, when I run Emacs on GNU-Linux with
> > ja_JP.EUC-JP locale, default-process-coding-system is:
> >   (japanese-iso-8bit . japanese-iso-8bit)
> >
> > Is this because of DOS/Windows specific code in mule-cmds.el?
> >   
> 
> I do not know, but this is the value that is set by 
> set-default-process-coding-system in w32-fns.el. This is run in 
> before-init-hook.

This may or may not be a bug, but I'm not sure it has anything to do
with the original problem.  Does the problem with DIR output go away
if you change default-process-coding-system and process-coding-system
to `(cp850-dos . cp850-unix)'?