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

[George Politis]

On Monday, 31 December 2012 20:51:17 UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:39:14 -0800 (PST)
> 
> > From: George Politis
> > 
> > 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).

This was indeed the problem. I just installed the latest pretest and it
works great now. Many thanks!