Re: Accented characters do not display correctly when running GNU Emacs inside a Windows Command Prompt

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:39:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: George Politis <gp@superpointer.com>
> 
> If I run GNU Emacs in console mode (with the -nw switch) in PowerShell or a 
> Command Prompt, then accented characters appear as escape sequences in the 
> editor. For example, if I type the letter ``é``, I get ``\202``, for ``à`` I 
> get ``\205``, etc. In windowed mode (without the -nw switch), it works OK!
> 
> I am not even remotely familiar with the Emacs source code, but I suspect 
> that this might be a problem with the way it reads characters from the 
> Windows terminal. Then again it might be an obscure configuration error on my 
> part.
> 
> I've tried all possible combinations of the following lines in my init file:
> 
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
> 
> I'm using the Win32 build of GNU Emacs 24.2.1. 
> 
> Can somebody please help me or confirm that this is a bug?

This is a known bug that is already solved for the upcoming release
24.3 of Emacs.  See http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12082.
If you can try the latest pretest from alpha.gnu.org, you should see
this problem gone (I hope).