bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

[David Engster]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
>> I'm inclined to say that this change is wrong, since strcmp will only
>> return 0 if two strings are exactly equal. In this case though, the
>> string "iso-8859-" is compared to "iso-8859-1" (in my case), so it
>> returns 1 and therefore check_latin_extra is not set.
>
> You are right.  But in my case, it was not enough to test for
> "iso-8859-", as the symbol's name was "iso-latin-1", not "iso-8859-1".
>
> I installed the patch below, that does seem to fix the problem with
> the OP's .gnus.el, although I don't know how general that problem is,
> nor whether Emacs is capable of distinguishing UTF-8 from Latin-N in
> general.

I can confirm this patch fixes my original bug report (#2354). Thanks!

-David