bug#29872: 26.0.90; `man' output encoding, hyphen chars

[Stefan Kangas]

fixed 29872 26.1
close 29872
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:11:05 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Cc: 29872@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > What about the below, does that work?
>> >   (let ((locale-coding-system 'utf-8))
>> >     (man "find"))
>>
>> Yes!  With `emacs -Q', loading the two files mentioned,
>> and then evaluating that sexp, the `man' output is correct:
>> hyphens appear as they should - that is:
>>
>>   name: HYPHEN
>>   general-category: Pd (Punctuation, Dash)
>>   decomposition: (8208) ('‐')
>>
>> What should I then change in, say, `setup-cygwin.el',
>> to make that happen?  (Or does something need to be
>> changed in Emacs itself?)
>
> For Emacs 26, I've just committed a change that introduces a new
> defcustom, Man-coding-system, which you can customize to utf-8 to get
> the correct behavior in your case.  For older versions of Emacs, you
> will need to use a separate command that invokes 'man' as shown above,
> because man.el unconditionally uses locale-coding-system for that, and
> locale-coding-system on MS-Windows can never be UTF-8.

It seems like this was:

commit 39ca289a7a33d514c2a46f005db4e7173fb7e9f5
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 31 18:20:12 2017 +0200

    Allow customization of decoding of "man" command

    * lisp/man.el (Man-coding-system): New defcustom.
    (Man-start-calling): Use it, and also pay attention to user
    overriding coding-system-for-read.  (Bug#29872)

Since no one has indicated otherwise in this thread, I'm going to assume
that this issue is now fixed and close this bug report.  If that is
incorrect, please reopen it.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas