Re: word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22

[Stefan Monnier]

> emacs-23:
>             character: ü (252, #o374, #xfc)
>     preferred charset: eight-bit (Raw bytes 128-255)

This character is not really the "u mit umlaut" but rather it's the byte
252 (FC in hexidecimal), which happens to be displayed as ü for reasons
I'm not sure I understand.

> emacs-22:
>       character: ü (252, #o374, #xfc)
>         charset: eight-bit-graphic (8-bit graphic char (0xA0..0xFF))

Same thing here.  I.e. your Emacs-22 also gets this file wrong.

The only difference between Emacs-22 and Emacs-23 is that Emacs-23
doesn't pretend that bytes between 128 and 255 are latin-1 chars.

The right fix is to try and figure out why the char is "byte nb 252"
rather than "u mit umlaut".  Try to look at that file with "emacs -Q",
to see if you can reproduce the problem there.


        Stefan
        
        
PS: maybe you're using Emacs in unibyte mode, which was a bad idea in
Emacs-22, is deprecated in Emacs-23 and won't exist any more in Emacs-24.