Re: copying certain characters from web browser to xemacs results in backslash followed by three numerals
10:55 p.m.
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well.
"tpc247(a)gmail.com" <tpc247(a)gmail.com> writes:
Adrian, here's the information you requested, respectively. When
I
originally described the problem, I was on Windows 2000, but as of the
writing of this email, I am on Windows Vista.
<output of M-x describe-installation>
OS version:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
OS: Windows_NT
XEmacs 21.4.19 "Constant Variable" configured for `i586-pc-win32'.
Building XEmacs in "e:\\acs\\software\\XEmacsWindowsKit\
\xemacs-21.4-2006-01-28\\nt".
Using compiler "cl -nologo -W3 -O2 -G5 -MD".
Installing XEmacs in "c:\\XEmacs-built\\XEmacs-21.4.19".
Package path is "~\\.xemacs;;c:\\XEmacs-built\\site-packages;c:\
\XEmacs-built\\xemacs-packages".
Compiling in support for Microsoft Windows native GUI.
Compiling in support for XPM images.
Compiling in support for GIF images.
Compiling in support for PNG images.
Compiling in support for TIFF images.
Compiling in support for JPEG images.
Compiling in support for toolbars.
Compiling in support for dialogs.
Compiling in support for widgets.
Compiling in support for native sounds.
Compiling in fast dired implementation.
Using portable dumper.
Using system malloc.
Using DLL version of C runtime library
</output of M-x describe-installation>
I don't quite understand what you mean with the following block:
<Adrian's text>
and use
; C-u (universal-argument)
; C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp)
; at end of next line in an XEmacs buffer:
(featurep 'file-coding)
</Adrian's text>
In a buffer, when I type Ctrl-u and then Ctrl-x Ctrl-e as I believe
you requested, I immediately got the following response in the
minibuffer:
"Symbol's value as variable is void:" or "End of file or stream:"
I'd appreciate if our coding-system specialists could comment on this.
Here is what I can observe:
Ah, I missed to mention you should do this in the *scratch* buffer,
which will be in "Lisp Interaction" mode in a standard setup.
NB: In any buffer try
C-h m (describe-mode)
to find out which mode it is in.
A publicly available url where such characters can be found is at:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml
Ah, thanks.
A description of how I create the buffer in XEmacs where I paste the
characters to is, I start Windows, I execute Xemacs in the Start menu,
then I click on File/Open... and I browse for the particular text file
I use as an all-purpose container for my observations and reminders
and notes to myself.
Ah, that could be part of the problem.
Try creating a new .txt file an paste there.
The file you're opening might force a certain coding system.
But I get the same problem in my mule-enabled
"XEmacs 21.5 (beta28) \"fuki\" (+CVS-20070629) [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32,
Mule) of Sat Jun 30 2007 on TANG"
The first occurrence of the undesirable behavior occurs when
attempting to copy and paste the first paragraph, in the last line, at
the character between "nature" and "human".
Do you get a "~" displayed instead?
That's what I get, with the pasted character being described as:
Char: — (U+2014 chinese-cns11643-1 33 55) point=1 of 1(0%) column 0
That's what I get in a fundamental-mode buffer.
Page
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml
asserts it's charset=iso-8859-1:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
but then it contains
evolved nature—human nature
which doesn't make sense to me.
Above page is not "Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" as it claims!
See
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2F...
It doesn't complain about line 440 though (not sure whether this is
because of the many errors before that point).
When I attempted to execute Alt-x describe-current-coding-system, I
got the following response in the minibuffer:
<output of M-x describe-current-coding-system>
[No match]
</output of M-x describe-current-coding-system>
Please try the test above in the *scratch* buffer and send us the results.
Adrian
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1:07 p.m.
New subject: copying certain characters from web browser to xemacs results in backslash followed by three numerals
Ar an séú lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Adrian Aichner:
Do you get a "~" displayed instead?
I *suspect* he’s running a non-Mule binary; I haven’t ever seen the
three-digits symptom, but then I mostly run with Mule.
That's what I get, with the pasted character being described as:
Char: — (U+2014 chinese-cns11643-1 33 55) point=1 of 1(0%) column 0
That's what I get in a fundamental-mode buffer.
That’s correct behaviour, but the Unicode redisplay support on Win32 is
worse than on X11—it requires that every character in the Mule charset be
supported in the Win32 font, for example, which is actually impossible with
some of the CNS 11643 character sets—so it doesn’t appear as such.
On my machine, though, I do have a Big5 font available (I’m not certain, but
I think I downloaded it from Adobe’s East Asian font pack.) And once I
rearrange the character sets that get priority when translating from
Unicode:
(set-language-unicode-precedence-list '(ascii latin-iso8859-1 latin-iso8859-2
latin-iso8859-3 latin-iso8859-4 thai-tis620 greek-iso8859-7 arabic-iso8859-6
hebrew-iso8859-8 katakana-jisx0201 latin-jisx0201 cyrillic-iso8859-5 latin-iso8859-9
latin-iso8859-15 composite control-1 japanese-jisx0208-1978 chinese-gb2312
japanese-jisx0208 korean-ksc5601 japanese-jisx0212 chinese-big5-1 chinese-big5-2
chinese-cns11643-1 chinese-cns11643-2 arabic-digit arabic-1-column arabic-2-column
chinese-sisheng ascii-right-to-left indian-is13194 lao latin-iso8859-14 latin-iso8859-16
ipa vietnamese-viscii-upper vietnamese-viscii-lower chinese-cns11643-3 chinese-cns11643-4
chinese-cns11643-5 chinese-cns11643-6 chinese-cns11643-7 chinese-isoir165 ethiopic
indian-2-column indian-1-column japanese-jisx0213-1 japanese-jisx0213-2 thai-xtis tibetan
tibetan-1-column))
and paste the text again, it displays correctly.
Page
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml
asserts it's charset=iso-8859-1:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
but then it contains
evolved nature—human nature
which doesn't make sense to me.
HTML entities such as that one can legally refer to any Unicode code point.
The charset=[...] directive just specifies how to interpret the octets.
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