Re: Emacs fails to recogize "iso-2022-jp" encoded file

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

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> VIsiting a file which is encoded using the "iso-2022-jp" coding system,
> using the command ("/tmp/isojp" is the file):

>    LANG=ja_JP.utf-8 emacs -Q /tmp/isojp

> ... does not recognize the file's encoding properly, and instead tries
> to decode it using utf-8 (so the file contents show up as a bunch of
> escape characters).

> Emacs reads the file properly if the encoding to use is explicitly
> specified (with "C-x C-m c iso-2022-jp RET C-x C-f").

> This worked properly as of a week or so ago (not sure the exact dates),
> so it seems to be a recent regression.

Oops, I've just installed a fix.

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Kenichi Handa
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