bug#58281: 27.1; windows mangles encoding on command line

[Daniel Bastos]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 5:24 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Daniel Bastos <dbastos@id.uff.br>
> > Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 16:40:04 -0300
> > Cc: 58281@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > > I've now installed a change for Emacs 29 that I think should fix your
> > > > problems.  So if you can try the current master branch of the Emacs
> > > > Git repository, please do, and see if your problem with Fossil are
> > > > solved there.
> >
> > I'm not sure which is "Emacs 29".  I took the master branch
> >
> >   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/
> >
> > right now --- November 7th, 15h EST --- and followed nt/INSTALL.W64 to
> > compile it using MSYS32 in a MINGW64 shell.  After building the
> > runemacs.exe, I ran it with the option -Q and I see the version is
> >
> >   GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2022-11-07
> >
> > I get the following behavior:
>
> Btw, what is the value of locale-coding-system in this case for you in
> Emacs 29?

On *scratch*, I say

  locale-coding-system C-u M-x eval-last-sexp

and I get

  cp1252

I did something similar while in ESHELL and I got the same cp1252.