Re: Weird behaviour of emacs

[David Sumbler <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx> writes:

> David Sumbler wrote:
>> If I save the file in emacs-mule format, a lower case 'alpha' appears
>> as bytes [92 a6 c1] in case (a), and [9c f4 a7 b1] in case (b).  Other
>> characters show similar differences.
>>
>> I've spent weeks trying to solve this, without success.  Can someone
>> point me in the direction of an explanation and/or solution?
>
> The explanation: This a well-known design flaw of Mule in Emacs/XEmacs.
> Possibly the solution: The emacs-unicode[-2] branch of the Emacs CVS.

Ah - bummer.  Oh well, Emacs and Gnus are far to good to ditch, so
I'll have to live with it for now.  Not sure whether I'm up to trying
to build a CVS version.  I'll leave it till I've got a bit of spare
time.

David

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David Sumbler


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