21.5 mule: Latin-2(polish) - wrong coding system identification

[Aidan Kehoe]

Thanks, Krzysztof. One thing I forgot to mention is that you’ll need to
delete all the .elc files in lisp/mule/ after applying the patch, and before
rebuilding. 

 Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Krzysztof Rudnik: 

 > Thanks very much for the reply.
 > I'll apply the patch and let you know how it works.
 > 
 > Krzysztof
 > 
 > 
 > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> wrote:
 > >
 > > Hi, Krzysztof, and sorry about the delay --
 > >
 > > This is my bug, I think. If you have a second, can you apply the following
 > > patch, and check if the problem still happens?
 > >
 > > diff -r 49f8ed034500 lisp/ChangeLog
 > > --- a/lisp/ChangeLog    Mon May 12 11:53:04 2008 +0200
 > > +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog    Wed May 14 12:12:09 2008 +0200
 > > @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ 2008-05-11  Aidan Kehoe  <kehoea at parhasa
 > > +2008-05-14  Aidan Kehoe  <kehoea at parhasard.net>
 > > +
 > > +       * mule/mule-coding.el (make-8-bit-choose-category):
 > > +       Control-1 characters extend from #x80 to #x9F (inclusive),
 > > +       not from #x80 to #xBF.
 > > +
 > >  2008-05-11  Aidan Kehoe  <kehoea at parhasard.net>
 > >
 > >        * disp-table.el (make-display-table):
 > > diff -r 49f8ed034500 lisp/mule/mule-coding.el
 > > --- a/lisp/mule/mule-coding.el  Mon May 12 11:53:04 2008 +0200
 > > +++ b/lisp/mule/mule-coding.el  Wed May 14 12:12:09 2008 +0200
 > > @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ disk to XEmacs characters for some fixed
 > >   (check-argument-range (length decode-table) #x100 #x100)
 > >   (block category
 > >     (loop
 > > -      for i from #x80 to #xBF
 > > +      for i from #x80 to #x9F
 > >       do (unless (= i (aref decode-table i))
 > >            (return-from category 'no-conversion)))
 > >     'iso-8-1))
 > >
 > > Bye,
 > >
 > > Aidan
 > >
 > >  Ar an naoú lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Krzysztof Rudnik:
 > >
 > >  > I've already mailed to xemacs-beta but I've got no response at all.
 > >  >
 > >  > I use   mule XEmacs 21.5-b28 "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) configured for
 > >  > `i686-pc-linux'.
 > >  > to edit large number of polish texts encoded in iso-8859-2.
 > >  >
 > >  > init.el: (I've found this somewhere in the list)
 > >  > (set-language-environment "Latin-2")
 > >  > (setq latin-unity-preapproved-coding-system-list '(iso-8859-2))
 > >  > (latin-unity-install)
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > locale : LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 > >  >
 > >  > In most cases xemacs recognizes coding system correctly but sometimes
 > >  > coding system for saving buffer is set to
 > >  > iso-8859-1 :
 > >  > Coding system for saving this buffer:
 > >  >   Latin 1 -- iso-8859-1-unix
 > >  > Default coding system (for new files):
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  > Coding system for keyboard input:
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  > Coding system for terminal output:
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  >
 > >  > I can even I get :
 > >  > Coding system for saving this buffer:
 > >  >   UTF8 -- utf-8-unix
 > >  > Default coding system (for new files):
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  > Coding system for keyboard input:
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  > Coding system for terminal output:
 > >  >   Latin 2 -- iso-8859-2
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > I think the files are properly encoded ( `iconv -f iso-8859-2 -t utf8` does
 > >  > not complain).
 > >  > In fact some of them were prepared in xemacs in Latin2 environment.
 > >  > (usually edit in Latin-2 env -> save -> close -> open again ->  Latin-1)
 > >  >
 > >  > I redused the problem to a very small (couple of letters) documents and got
 > >  > strange results:
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > 1. if a document contains exactly one small polish letter (there are 9 of
 > >  > them) then coding system is always Latin-1
 > >  >
 > >  > 2. if there are just 2 polish letters then coding system is Latin-2 unless
 > >  > these letters are separated by any string i.e.
 > >  > for example: it is ok for "wziąć"  but not for  "wzią ć"
 > >  >
 > >  > 3. I could not automaticaly get Latin-2 coding system for documents with
 > >  > exactly 3 polish letters - did't check all posibilites.
 > >  >
 > >  > 4. I could't see any rule. in more complicated cases
 > >  >
 > >  > Is this a bug or my xemacs is not configured properly?
 > >  > Could you please help me or at least sugest where I can get help?
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > thanks in advance
 > >  > Krzysztof
 > >
 > > --
 > > ¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir
 > > precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?
 > >

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¿Dónde estará ahora mi sobrino Yoghurtu Nghé, que tuvo que huir
precipitadamente de la aldea por culpa de la escasez de rinocerontes?