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bug#50152: Weird characters (eg: â\200\220) are displayed when browsing
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50152: Weird characters (eg: â\200\220) are displayed when browsing man pages in Emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:59:31 +0300 |
> From: Jehu Amanna <jehuamanna@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:37:24 +0530
>
> Vist the man page in this following order : C-x RET c utf-8 RET M-x man RET
> memset RET
>
> The following is the output:
>
> MEMSET(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MEMSET(3)
>
> NAME
> memset - fill memory with a constant byte
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <string.h>
>
> void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The memset() function fills the first n bytes of the memory area
> pointed to by s with the constant byte c.
>
> RETURN VALUE
> The memset() function returns a pointer to the memory area s.
>
> ATTRIBUTES
> For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
> atâ€â€
> tributes(7).
It's very strange, because I cannot reproduce the problem on my
system, with UTF-8 encoded man pages, although my system's
locale-coding-system is also iso-latin-1. When I override the default
encoding with "C-x RET c", the man pages are displayed correctly.
>From the screenshot you sent, I see that it was taken not in "emacs -Q",
but on Reddit you said that "emacs -Q" shows the same problem?