Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:10:48 +0900
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > "ESC $ ( Q" is for a charset newly introduced in Emacs 23.
> > So, Emacs 22 doesn't know how to decode it, and as Emacs 22
> > has a limitation on the number of charsets, there's no way
> > to support all of such escape sequence.

> This means people should not edit Emacs 22.x ChangeLog files with
> Emacs 23.  I don't know if we can expect people to remember that.

I'm going to modify the code to have the more reasonable
charset priority.  After that change, in most cases,
iso-2022-7bit maps characters to the same charsets, or at
least, to the charsets supported in Emacs 22.

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