[debbugs-tracker] bug#17575: closed (24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS)

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regarding 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
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> 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
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> Fri, 23 May 2014 22:24:06 -0500
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> etc/NEWS contains the line
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> ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
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> Yet for me, emacs -Q uses the wrong coding system, so that I get
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> ** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.
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> It seems that etc/NEWS should use a file-local variable to specify
> its coding system.
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> In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
>  of 2014-05-12 on regnitz
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
> System Description:     Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: C
>   value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix
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> Major mode: Outline
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> Thanks, I fixed that in emacs-24 bzr 117150, along with four other 
> instances of the same problem that I found, and am marking this bug as done.
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> I didn't adjust files taken from Gnulib, though, as it's not worth the 
> hassle of maintaining a separate version of these files just for this 
> reason.  (The Gnulib folks switched to UTF-8 source code long ago and 
> aren't looking back.)  So you'll still see a problem with reading 
> Andreas Grünbacher's name in the comments in lib/qcopy-acl.c, 
> lib/acl-internal.h, and lib/file-has-acl.c.
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> Also, there are two tiny ASCII-only files (doc/misc/gnus-overrides.texi, 
> nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/PkgInfo) which Emacs in a Latin-9 
> locale for some reason decides should be iso-latin-9 rather than utf-8. 
>  I dunno why that would be, but I assume you won't be editing those 
> files so it should be OK.
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