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bug#34711: 26.1.92; eww-mode displays \327 whereas firefox displays × sy
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#34711: 26.1.92; eww-mode displays \327 whereas firefox displays × symbol |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:14:08 +0200 |
tags 34711 notabug
thanks
> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:59:14 +1100
>
> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x eww RET
> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-standard-control-constructs.html
> 3. find line having: to print out the times tables
> 4. see: to print out the times tables from 1 \327 1
> 5. note: that \327 between 1 and 1; that should be 1 × 1 as seen in firefox
> 6. note: that colorised red \327 is said to be unprintable when trying to
> email
Type "E latin-1 RET", and Bob's your uncle.
This is not a bug: that URL is encoded in Latin-1, and EWW by default
assumes UTF-8. Emacs just has different defaults and different
guesswork.