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[Bug localedata/3901] New: iconv -f emacs-mule
- From: "aurelien at aurel32 dot net" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 22 Jan 2007 14:08:14 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/3901] New: iconv -f emacs-mule
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
>From debian bug #398270
It would be very helpful if one could do
$ iconv -f emacs-mule -t utf8 file
as one way or another, an emacs buffer sometimes gets saved in mule
encoding -- one cannot guarantee it will never happen, and the person
later who discovers the file has been saved that way might not have,
be able to use, or understand the documents of emacs.
One would like to not need a Ph. D. to turn
=98=A8=BB=98=BC=E2
back into
=E5=8F=B0=E6=8E=83.
Actually one way of rescuing the file would be to put -*-Coding:
emacs-mule-*- at the top, possibly with ed(1), before opening it with
emacs. Actually emacs should auto-detect the coding system, but
sometimes there is a byte of garbage so emacs guesses wrong.
Then one can copy and paste the region into a already open other utf-8
file, unless one understands the mule menus.
Anyway, it would still be good to have it in iconv.
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Summary: iconv -f emacs-mule
Product: glibc
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: aurelien at aurel32 dot net
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3901
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